hospital-specific trends, we find that unionized hospitals also outperform hospitals without any union election in the same 12 …We estimate the impact of nurse unions on health care quality using patient discharge data and the universe of hospital … unionizations in California between 1996 and 2005. We find that hospitals with a successful union election outperform hospitals with …

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 …

of the hospital from a fringe institution to one essential to the practice of medicine. Despite the central role of … medicine in contemporary society, little is known about how hospitals and modern medicine contributed to this health transition …. In this paper, we explore how access to the hospital and modern medicine affects mortality. We do so by leveraging a …

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 …

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 …

reporting in Kenyan health clinics. We recruit patients and health care providers from public and private health clinics to play … a series of modified Trust Games. In the game, patients can send money to providers, who are then able to reciprocate …. Patients can then file complaints if they are unhappy with the provider's level of reciprocity. We examine patient and provider …

availability. In the patient preferences field experiment, we find that patients strongly prefer doctors educated in the United …

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. …