A Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) in the health-care sector is used to test the loss aversion theory that is derived … with non-tangible attributes. A health-care event is used for empirical illustration: The loss aversion theory is tested …

Using a rich sample of admission records from New Orleans Touro Infirmary, we examine the in-hospital mortality risk of … free and enslaved patients. Despite a higher mortality rate in the general population, slaves were significantly less … likely to die in the hospital than the whites. We analyze the determinants of in-hospital mortality at Touro using Oaxaca …

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 …

Low healthcare quality has been found to predict the development of several illnesses in older adults, while the … evidence on dementia is still lacking. This study assesses whether and to what extent experiencing low healthcare quality can … healthcare quality was assessed at baseline through healthcare discrimination and dissatisfaction with healthcare services. The …

the agency model that health care professionals understand what their patients want. Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs …) are conducted simultaneously within samples of patients (women who gave birth) and care-givers (doctors and nurses), to … elicit and contrast patients' authentic preferences (for five maternity ward attributes) with what care-givers believe them …

Using a rich sample of admission records from New Orleans Touro Infirmary, we examine the in-hospital mortality risk of … free and enslaved patients. Despite a higher mortality rate in the general population, slaves were significantly less … likely to die in the hospital than the whites. We analyze the determinants of in-hospital mortality at Touro using Oaxaca …