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 …

used containing quarterly information on healthcare costs (care by general practitioner (GP), hospital care, pharmaceutical … acupuncture (25), homeopathy (28) and anthroposophic medicine (26). Patients whose GP has additional CAM training have 0 to 30 … hospital stays and fewer prescription drugs. Since the differences are obtained while controlling for confounders including …

availability. In the patient preferences field experiment, we find that patients strongly prefer doctors educated in the United …

We measure one aspect of how access to emergency care through ambulance services changes for patients when a hospital … period immediately after the hospital closes. We find urban patients in zip codes where a hospital closes have a small change … to transport a patient from the location of the incident to the hospital. The impact on rural Medicare-eligible patients …

of the hospital from a fringe institution to one essential to the practice of medicine. Despite the central role of …. In this paper, we explore how access to the hospital and modern medicine affects mortality. We do so by leveraging a … combination of novel data and a unique quasi-experiment: a large-scale hospital modernization program introduced by The Duke …

between patients affiliated with healthcare professionals and their counterpart patients not affiliated with healthcare … professionals. Using the China Labor-force Dynamics Survey (CLDS) in 2014, we identified 806 patients affiliated with healthcare … professionals and 22,788 patients not affiliated with healthcare professionals. The matched outpatient proportion of patients not …

We evaluate the effect of a pro-competition reform gradually introduced in France over the 2004-2008 period on hospital … quality measured with the mortality of heart-attack patients. Our analysis distinguishes between hospitals depending on their … are all under a DRG-based payment system after the reform. For each hospital status, we assess the benefits of local …

exhaustive administrative dataset on patients admitted for heart attack. Our results show that innovative procedures play a key … role in explaining the effect of ownership status on hospital quality. When age, sex, diagnoses and co-morbidities are held …

patients. Thus, targeting provider incentives through alternative payment models, such as episode-based reimbursement, is more …