This paper studies how stress affects the mortality risk. Using a flexible approach and allowing for timevarying … treatment effects, I find no impact of stress on the short-run mortality risk but a substantially increase in the long-run. The … substantially lower the mortality risk for women. The results for men point towards lower effectiveness likely due to stigma effects …

years 2005 to 2007. We apply regression methods to analyze the association between volume and hospital quality. We measure … significant negative relationship between case volume and mortality for complex interventions at the pancreas and oesophagus as … Krankenhausdaten, die die vollständige deutsche Krankenhauspopulation für die Jahre 2005 bis 2007 enthalten. Dabei messen wir die …

avoidable mortality from IHD.This is important, as the modernization of the East German health sector included a considerable …

. -- Volume ; hospital quality ; mortality …

variation in mortality rates between weekend and weekday admissions. Patients admitted during the weekend exhibit higher in …-hospital mortality rates. We also find signs of premature discharge, as patients with short lengths of stay tend to exhibit higher …