. For patients with diagnoses of Pneumonia or Acute Myocardial Infarction, an additional day in the hospital could decrease … reducing mortality rates far exceed the cost of keeping these patients in the hospital for an additional day … as important indicators of hospital quality. Concerns have been raised, however, as to whether post-discharge mortality …

cream skimming, i.e., choosing patients for some characteristic(s) other than their need for care, which enhances the … estimates of hospital ownership type consist of the impact of differential patient case mix (selection) and hospital cost … likely to treat high-cost patients than not-for-profit (NFP) hospitals, showing no evidence that FP hospitals engage in cream …

patient demand. The model is identified by migration of patients and physicians across areas, as well as by variation in … within-area matching. We find that physicians vary greatly in the intensity with which they treat otherwise similar patients …

compliance with patient safety measures in both public and private facilities (more so in the latter) and reallocated patients …

available quality measures, and (2) apply this method to estimating the quality of hospital care for elderly patients with heart … accurately estimate and forecast each provider's quality level. For patients with heart disease, the method is able to predict …

-off between patients treated and time spent with each patient, which we treat as a proxy for a quality v. quantity decision. We …

patients receive care at lower-performing hospitals than white patients, even when they live in the same hospital market or ZIP … tended to treat Black patients, rather than faster reallocation of Black patients to better hospitals. (4) Hospital …We develop a simple framework to measure the role of hospital allocation in racial disparities in health care and use …

outcomes: for patients with the same propensity to be treated, prejudice implies a higher return from treatment for treated …