yields far more accurate estimates of hospital quality than previously available. We find that, on average, for …

this, the UK government has pursued an active policy of hospital merger. These mergers are initiated by a regulator, acting …

use detailed longitudinal monthly data on nursing units in the Veterans Administration hospital system to identify how the … human capital (general, hospital-specific and unit or team-specific) of the nursing team on the unit affects patients …

payment for skilled nursing facilities (SNF PPS) in geographic areas with high versus low levels of hospital/SNF integration …

compare hospital performance for emergency patients: plausibly exogenous variation in ambulance-company assignment. Ambulances … data from 2002-2008, we show that ambulance company assignment importantly affects hospital choice for patients in the same … zip code. Using data for New York state from 2000-2006 that matches exact patient addresses to hospital discharge records …

methodology for estimating the causal relationship between hospital quality measures and patient outcomes. To compare similar …-scoring hospital results in better patient outcomes. We estimate that a two-standard deviation improvement in a composite quality …

population already has geographic access to the service at a nearby hospital. The first effect is stronger, leading to the net …

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 …