unionizations in California between 1996 and 2005. We find that hospitals with a successful union election outperform hospitals with … a failed election in 12 of 13 nurse sensitive patient outcomes measures. We also find that hospitals with a unionization … hospital-specific trends, we find that unionized hospitals also outperform hospitals without any union election in the same 12 …

trial that randomized premiums and subsidies for India's first national, public hospital insurance program, called RSBY. We …

Retention of skilled workers is essential for labour-intensive organisations like hospitals, where an excessive … turnover of doctors and nurses can reduce the quality and quantity of services to patients. In the public sector, where … on employee-level payroll and staff survey records from the universe of English NHS hospitals, and estimate dynamic panel …

medicine in contemporary society, little is known about how hospitals and modern medicine contributed to this health transition … Endowment in the early twentieth century. The Endowment helped communities build and expand hospitals, obtain state …. We further provide evidence on the mechanisms that enabled these effects, finding that Endowment-supported hospitals …

the agency model that health care professionals understand what their patients want. Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs …) are conducted simultaneously within samples of patients (women who gave birth) and care-givers (doctors and nurses), to … elicit and contrast patients' authentic preferences (for five maternity ward attributes) with what care-givers believe them …

improves queuing efficiency in overcrowded hospitals and draws demand for underutilized ones. Supported by additional evidence … from a subset of patients' electronic medical records, we also find that the app directs patients to the hospital and …

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 …

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 …