Roughly a quarter of physicians in the United States are either international medical graduates (IMGs) or foreign …-born physicians (FBPs). We propose a theoretical model where patient preferences that disfavor IMGs and FBPs may result in those … physicians offering better access to their services compared with non-IMGs/FBPs in equilibrium. We use data from two field …

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 …

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 …

We provide an analysis of the effect of physician payment methods on their hospital patients' length of stay and risk … introduced an optional mixed compensation (MC) scheme for specialist physicians working in hospital. This scheme combines a fixed … patients' health by more than a critical level, they will stay more days in hospital over the period. At the empirical level …

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 …

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. …

Using simulated patients to mimic nine established non-communicable and infectious diseases over 27 trials, we assess …

outcomes between physicians and another highly educated group, lawyers, and between surgeons and non-surgeon physicians … Education 2011 duty hour reform, which lowered trainee work hours, impacted the birth outcomes of babies born to physicians … compared with lawyers. We find that physicians have lower birth weights and shorter pregnancies than lawyers with the results …