,025 admissions to the faculty and community services of a university hospital, measuring differences in case mix, costs, and outcomes … percent) for patients with a predicted probability of death (DTHRISK) of .25 or greater.The in-hospital mortality rate was … of 51 pairs of admissions from the high death risk category confirmed the above results with respect to costs and in-hospital …

procurement decisions in the context of India. We compare 3 different allocation strategies (oldest first, highest contact rate … vaccines that can practically guide government procurement decisions. Our analysis yields 4 novel findings. First, the need to …

' treatment decisions, and in turn hospital device procurement, in favor of paying firms. Payments are pervasive: 87 percent of … firms to physicians and medical device procurement by hospitals. These payments (and the interactions that accompany them … device sales in our sample occurred at a hospital where a relevant physician received a payment from a device firm. Payments …