of conditions and performance measures that higher quality hospitals tend to have higher market shares at a point in time … patients who have greater scope for hospital choice, suggesting a role for patient demand in allocation in the hospital sector …

patients receive care at lower-performing hospitals than white patients, even when they live in the same hospital market or ZIP … code within a hospital market. (2) Over the past two decades, the gap in performance between hospitals treating Black and … tended to treat Black patients, rather than faster reallocation of Black patients to better hospitals. (4) Hospital …

The conventional wisdom in health economics is that large differences in average productivity across hospitals are the …, however, we find that productivity dispersion in heart attack treatment across hospitals is, if anything, smaller than in … standard market forces. In particular, we find that hospitals that are more productive at treating heart attacks have higher …

in our case, hospitals. Theoretical implications are tested using U.S. Medicare data on survival and factor inputs for 2 … heart attack treatments appear positive but quite modest. Hospitals which during the period 1994/95 to 2003/04 raised their … rate of technology diffusion (the quot;tigersquot;) experienced outcome gains four times the gains in hospitals with …

Mergers that affiliate a hospital with a Catholic owner, network, or system reduce the set of possible reproductive … medical procedures since Catholic hospitals have strict prohibitions on contraception. Using changes in ownership of hospitals …, we find that Catholic hospitals reduce the per bed rates of tubal ligations by 31%, whereas there is no significant …

available quality measures, and (2) apply this method to estimating the quality of hospital care for elderly patients with heart … and forecast differences in patient outcomes across hospitals remarkably well - far better than existing methods. Our … differences across hospitals in short-term mortality rates following a heart attack, adjusted for patient demographics, are …