We estimate the impact of nurse unions on health care quality using patient discharge data and the universe of hospital … hospital-specific trends, we find that unionized hospitals also outperform hospitals without any union election in the same 12 …

utilization, outcomes, and costs for patients hospitalized for dementia in China. Regional patterns demonstrate gaps in equity and … efficiency of dementia care and management for dementia patients. Health policy and practices should consider geographic …

provision of hospital care. After the referendum, a sharp drop in the number of early-career new joiners from Europe resulted in … strategy, we find that emergency readmission rates increased, and more so in hospital organizations more exposed to the missing …

from a subset of patients' electronic medical records, we also find that the app directs patients to the hospital and … a streamlined appointment process on hospital operations and the alignment of healthcare supply and demand. Using a … longitudinal dataset on hospital operations and a difference-in-differences model, we document that the app increases completed …

link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy …

hospital care. We study how contractual pay terms affect the retention of trainee doctors in the English NHS and the … relationship between trainee doctors' attrition and hospital quality. Our setting is a nationwide reform that reduced unsocial … trainee doctors' attrition and hospital mortality. …

primary care doctor consultations. We use novel data from Sweden and an effectively random assignment of patients to nurses …, who differ in their propensity to direct patients to online versus inperson consultations. Our findings reveal that online …'s advantages for different patients and how to improve hybrid organizations' cost effectiveness. …

increasing prices. We test this prediction based on a reform of hospital financing in Germany. Uniquely, this reform changed the … affecting the relative prices for different types of patients. Based on administrative data, we find that hospitals do indeed …

exhaustive administrative dataset on patients admitted for heart attack. Our results show that innovative procedures play a key … role in explaining the effect of ownership status on hospital quality. When age, sex, diagnoses and co-morbidities are held … hospitals. -- hospital performance ; innovative procedures ; stratified duration model ; hospital quality …