. 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 …

-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 …

patients receive care at lower-performing hospitals than white patients, even when they live in the same hospital market or ZIP … tended to treat Black patients, rather than faster reallocation of Black patients to better hospitals. (4) Hospital …We develop a simple framework to measure the role of hospital allocation in racial disparities in health care and use …

market shares at a point in time and are more likely to expand over time. For example, a 10 percent increase in hospital … productivity today is associated with about 4 percent more patients in 5 years. Taken together, these facts suggest that the …

.8 million heart attack patients during 1986-2004. We find that the speed of diffusion for highly efficient and often low …

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