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role in explaining the effect of ownership status on hospital quality. When age, sex, diagnoses and co-morbidities are held …
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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 …
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We evaluate the effect of a pro-competition reform gradually introduced in France over the 2004-2008 period on hospital … are all under a DRG-based payment system after the reform. For each hospital status, we assess the benefits of local … hospital level to take into account hospital unobserved heterogeneity and censorship in the duration of stays in a flexible way …
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In England as elsewhere, policy makers are trying to reduce the pressure on costs due to rising hospital admissions by … encouraging GPs to refer fewer patients to hospital specialists. This could have an impact on elective treatment levels … data from Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) in England we estimate dynamic fixed effects panel data models for emergency …
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coworkers, in affecting employee retention within the public hospital sector. We exploit a unique and rich panel dataset based …
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decreased exits from the public hospital sector. Our results indicate that a light-touch intervention can shift management … behavior and improve hospital workforce turnover. These findings are important in sectors affected by labor supply shortages …
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-term physical health conditions (LTCs) and this co-occurrence is associated with higher hospital utilisation. Psychological … Therapies (IAPT) programme in England on hospital utilisation 12-months after the end of IAPT treatment. We examined three types … of hospital utilisation: Inpatient treatment, Outpatient treatment and Emergency room attendance. We examined individuals …
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We investigate the relationship among staff engagement, job complementarities and labour supply in the hospital sector …' retention of 0.16 and 0.2, respectively within the hospital and the NHS. Estimates of unconditional quantile regressions confirm …
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Quantitative school performance measures (QPMs) are playing an ever larger role in education systems on both sides of the Atlantic. In this paper we outline the rationale for the use of such measures in education, review the literature relating to several important problems associated with their...
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This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot scheme of incentives in a major government agency. The incentive scheme was based on teams and covered quantity and quality targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We...
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