transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), a major new heart attack treatment, on mortality. We use a full sample of administrative … suggest a 4.5 percentage point mortality reduction for patients who have access to this new treatment compared to patients … receiving only conservative treatment. We relate mortality reduction to the additional costs for this treatment and conclude …

variable approach to eliminate endogeneity concerns due to reverse causality and unobserved patient heterogeneity. As …

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 …

, and mortality in an event-study setting. Using claims data from a large German statutory health insurance, we find that … patients but performs less diagnostic testing. While we do not find evidence for mortality, our results reveal a substantial …

over a limited time period. This paper examines the effect of education on mortality using information on a national roll …,by using county-level proportions of reformed districts, census data and administrative mortality data, we find that the extra … compulsory school year reduced mortality. In fact, the mortality reduction is discernible already before the age of 30 and then …

significant negative relationship between case volume and mortality for complex interventions at the pancreas and oesophagus as …

administrative data from almost all German hospitals from 2002 to 2013 and link it to mortality rates and patient satisfaction … subjective and objective quality measures. Increasing nurse staffing levels by 10 percent reduces the mortality rate by 0 …

. -- Volume ; hospital quality ; mortality …

find that after controlling for patient heterogeneity and endogeneity of the day of admission there is still a significant … 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 …