of the hospital from a fringe institution to one essential to the practice of medicine. Despite the central role of …. In this paper, we explore how access to the hospital and modern medicine affects mortality. We do so by leveraging a … combination of novel data and a unique quasi-experiment: a large-scale hospital modernization program introduced by The Duke …

in preventing 1.9 hospital admissions (-2.1%) due to cardiovascular diseases per day, per 1 million population. We also …

link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy … positive cross-price elasticities between outpatient and inpatient care. …

increasing prices. We test this prediction based on a reform of hospital financing in Germany. Uniquely, this reform changed the …

' exposure to snowfall. A particularity of the reform led to exogenous treatment price shocks at hospital level in response to … capital stock, human resources, services and the organizational structure in case of reform-induced treatment price shocks at … the hospital level. To identify a causal effect, I develop a unique identification strategy where I exploit hospitals …

This study presents new evidence on the potential detrimental effects of hospital closures. We examine how hospital … closures affect the likelihood of incurring medical debt. Hospital closures can increase market concentration by removing a …'s ability to pay their bills. We combine 2011-2020 consumer credit bureau data with information on hospital closures from 2014 …

the programme has decreased the nurse turnover rate by 4.49%, decreased exits from the public hospital sector by 5 ….38%, and reduced mortality within 30 days from hospital admission by 3.45%, preventing 11,400 deaths. Our results are …