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

We develop a simple framework to measure the role of hospital allocation in racial disparities in health care and use … receives care, hospital care is highly effective, and hospital quality has been validated. We report four facts. (1) Black … patients receive care at lower-performing hospitals than white patients, even when they live in the same hospital market or ZIP …

market shares at a point in time and are more likely to expand over time. For example, a 10 percent increase in hospital …

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 …

We investigate the effect of therapeutic procedure innovation in general on the longevity of all hospital patients, i … private hospitals in Western Australia (WA) during the period 2000-2007. We can measure survival for a period as long as 8 … patient-level data indicate that therapeutic procedure innovation increased the life expectancy of WA hospital patients by …

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