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 …

Doing "more" in healthcare can be a major threat to the delivery of high-quality health care. This study used coarsened … 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 …

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 …

-income countries for primary healthcare delivery. We exploit the rollout of a nation-wide expansion of coverage to this model in El … Salvador. Using a panel dataset of municipalities spanning 2009-2018 from consultation and hospital records of almost 4 million … episodes, we show that investing in community-based healthcare, which relied on less-specialized health workers, led to a more …