Although it has long been conjectured that having physicians in leadership positions is valuable for hospital …-physician managers. The paper finds a strong positive association between the ranked quality of a hospital and whether the CEO is a …

role in explaining the effect of ownership status on hospital quality. When age, sex, diagnoses and co-morbidities are held …

within 15 days between extreme regions. They may reflect spatial differences in patient characteristics, treatments, hospital …

from a mother's residence to the closest hospital. We find that giving birth in a hospital leads to substantial reductions …

the hospital level. To identify a causal effect, I develop a unique identification strategy where I exploit hospitals …' exposure to snowfall. A particularity of the reform led to exogenous treatment price shocks at hospital level in response to …

. This may be a challenge in developing countries because of limited hospital capacity. In this study, we examine the … hospital admissions for elective care – phimosis surgery and epilepsy-related procedures such as video …

hospitalization puts patients at risk of hospital acquired conditions and disrupts their lives. We use variation in the patient …'s nearest hospital's propensity to admit patients with similar observable characteristics as an instrument for the admission … we find that the marginal hospital admission increases the number of hospital days by seven days and increases charges by …

Using the 1997-1998 New South Wales public-hospitals comparison data, we investigate the hospital-level inefficiency by … errors of the outputs of the hospital. The main findings are: First, inefficiency accounts for 9.3% of total hospital costs …