advantages of the dramatic decline in the Taiwanese fertility rate to examine whether an exogenous and negative income shock to … in fertility did not lead ob/gyns to supply more c-sections to less medically-informed pregnant women, and that during … fertility decline ob/gyns may supply more tocolytic hospitalizations to compensate their income loss, regardless of pregnant …

Background: While induced abortion is considered to be illegal and socially unacceptable in Nigeria, it is still … practiced by many women in the country. Poor family planning and unsafe abortion practices have daunting effects on maternal … major factor in this trend is the high incidence of abortion in the country. The objective of this paper is, therefore, to …

Prospective payment arrangements are now the main form of hospital funding in most developed countries. An essential … evolved to incentivise improvements in quality, and how prospective payment is being applied outside hospital settings. …

the OECD. How do the hospital admission patterns that generate waiting lists affect different patients? What are the … how constrained the hospital is, explains differences in scale. Changes in benefits and costs structures of healthcare …

This paper examines the extent to which agglomeration of the hospital service industry enhances the productivity of … an increasing spatial concentration of hospital services results in a decreased cost of obtaining intermediate medical … the hospital service industry attracts specialized medical labs, which in turn help to reduce the cost of producing …

model. Through a comparison of public and PPP hospital performance, cost and quality indicators, the efficiency of the PPP …

conventional surgery in a high-volume French hospital. Consecutive patients eligible for transfemoral TAVR or surgical aortic valve …

Objectives: To determine hospital resource utilization, associated costs and the risk of complications during …-9-CM diagnosis codes. Operating room time (ORT), length of stay (LOS), and total hospital costs, as well as frequency of … bleeding and infections during hospitalization were evaluated. The impact of cancer status on outcomes (from a hospital …

German hospital sector. Methods: We use a full sample of administrative data from the unselected, complete German hospital … population for the years 2005 to 2007. We apply regression methods to analyze the association between volume and hospital quality …. We measure hospital quality with a binary variable, which indicates whether the patient has died in hospital. Using …