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 …

There is considerable evidence that patients that are treated by high volume physicians and hospitals have better … health outcomes than patients treated by low volume physicians and hospitals. Thus, as an indirect measure of quality …

. Those treated by physicians from the higher-ranked institution have 10-25% shorter and less expensive stays than patients … are precise. Procedure differences across the teams are consistent with the ability of physicians in the lower …-ranked institution to substitute time and diagnostic tests for the faster judgments of physicians from the top-ranked institution …

of health care treatment quality constructed with data from the 1979 to 2005 National Hospital Discharge Surveys and the … nature of the present system of liability rules, which largely hold physicians to standards determined according to industry … alteration of this system altogether--i.e., upon a change in the clinical standards to which physicians are held in the first …

distinguish between two competing views of provider behavior. Physicians may consciously or unconsciously withhold treatment from …

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

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 …

as important indicators of hospital quality. Concerns have been raised, however, as to whether post-discharge mortality … rates are reasonable measures of hospital quality as they consider the frequency of an event that occurs after a patient is … discharged and no longer under the watch and care of the hospital. Using a large dataset comprised of all hospital encounters of …

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