Amenities such as good food, attentive staff, and pleasant surroundings may play an important role in hospital demand … patient perspective, hospital quality therefore embodies amenities as well as clinical quality. We also find that a one …-standard-deviation increase in amenities raises a hospital's demand by 38.4% on average, whereas demand is substantially less responsive to …

financial health affect different aspects of hospital operation. In our study, we analyze this issue focusing on hospital access … account both hospital's current and past financial health as well as their expected financial outlook (i.e., whether there is …

Patients who receive more hospital treatment tend to have worse underlying health, confounding estimates of the returns … to such care. This paper compares the costs and benefits of extending the length of hospital stay following delivery … entitle newborns to a minimum number of hospital quot;days,quot; counted as the number of midnights in care. A newborn …

, retaining and motivating high quality workers and this should harm hospital performance. We construct hospital-level panel data … on both quality - as measured by death rates (within hospital deaths within thirty days of emergency admission for acute … hospital outcomes in terms of quality and productivity. A 10% increase in the outside wage is associated with a 4% to 8 …

decompose the joint contribution of quality and unobserved productivity to hospital costs, relying on heterogeneous tastes among … the 75th percentile would increase costs at the average hospital by nearly fifty percent. Improvements in traditional … metrics of hospital quality such as risk-adjusted mortality are more modest, indicating that other factors such as amenities …