Showing 1 - 10 of 5,112
Using a rich sample of admission records from New Orleans Touro Infirmary, we examine the in-hospital mortality risk of … likely to die in the hospital than the whites. We analyze the determinants of in-hospital mortality at Touro using Oaxaca … based on the selective hospital admission of slaves. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277319
Approximately one in every thousand hospital patients dies because of preventable adverse events. Empirical findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292511
Hinblick auf ein leistungsfähiges und effektives Standortsystem der Krankenhaus- und Gesundheitsversorgung sind infrage …Current development trends in the restructuring of the hospital landscape, in particular the mergers of smaller … equal living conditions, and an efficient and effective system of hospital and health care locations. This requires spatial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013548672
(ICHEC). Next, the research examines the impact of increases in temperature on use of emergency in-patient hospital care in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015051818
hospital data on electrophysiological studies, an invasive cardiac procedure, I find evidence of entry-deterring investment in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263344
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274080
In most western societies, marital fertility began to decline in the nineteenth century. But in Ireland, fertility in marriage remained stubbornly high into the twentieth century. Explanations of this focus on the influence of the Roman Catholic Church in Irish society. These arguments are often...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293788
This paper investigates whether the degree and the nature of economic and monetary policy interdependence between the United States and the euro area have changed with the advent of EMU. Using real-time data, it addresses this issue from the perspective of financial markets by analysing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298252
It is widely believed that the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has grossly fallen short of high expectations raised by the Bush administration in 2002. From the perspective of potential recipient countries, the crucial issue is whether the MCC increased the overall pool of aid resources...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302718
In this paper we analyze the synchronization between the business cycles of US and Mexican regions. Regional economic activity in Mexico is measured using regional coincident indexes recently developed at Banco de México, while US aggregate economic activity is measured with the national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322545