the system. And with their individual behaviour patients contribute an important part to the dynamics of the system within …

offer their patients at regular times. To assess the magnitude of these effects, this study analyzes the effects of low … staff-to-patients ratios on patient outcomes empirically. We use the variation of patient admissions over time as a proxy … demand on outcomes is biased upwards. The reason is that when demand is high more patients with a higher unobservable frailty …

times than patients with statutory health insurance (SHI) in German acute hospital care. This behavior may be driven by the …This paper shows that patients with private health insurance (PHI) are being offered significantly shorter waiting …

In this paper we investigate the existence of a two-tier medical system in the German acute care hospital sector using … data from a survey of 483 German hospitals. The focus of our analysis lies on the impact of hospital concentration on the … probability of discrimination of patients with different health insurances in regard to the access to medical services. Accounting …

Approximately one in every thousand hospital patients dies because of preventable adverse events. Empirical findings …

Using a rich sample of admission records from New Orleans Touro Infirmary, we examine the in-hospital mortality risk of … free and enslaved patients. Despite a higher mortality rate in the general population, slaves were significantly less … likely to die in the hospital than the whites. We analyze the determinants of in-hospital mortality at Touro using Oaxaca …