. For patients with diagnoses of Pneumonia or Acute Myocardial Infarction, an additional day in the hospital could decrease … reducing mortality rates far exceed the cost of keeping these patients in the hospital for an additional day … as important indicators of hospital quality. Concerns have been raised, however, as to whether post-discharge mortality …

outcomes: for patients with the same propensity to be treated, prejudice implies a higher return from treatment for treated …

Mergers that affiliate a hospital with a Catholic owner, network, or system reduce the set of possible reproductive …

available quality measures, and (2) apply this method to estimating the quality of hospital care for elderly patients with heart … accurately estimate and forecast each provider's quality level. For patients with heart disease, the method is able to predict …

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

Amenities such as good food, attentive staff, and pleasant surroundings may play an important role in hospital demand … Medicare pneumonia patients in this market. We find that the mean valuation of amenities is positive and substantial. From the … patient perspective, hospital quality therefore embodies amenities as well as clinical quality. We also find that a one …

-off between patients treated and time spent with each patient, which we treat as a proxy for a quality v. quantity decision. We …

patients who have greater scope for hospital choice, suggesting a role for patient demand in allocation in the hospital sector …