-centre study. Patients were enrolled in a consecutive manner in 47 hospital centres stratified according to macro-area (North … Neurology department increases LOS by 19%, (ß=0.19; p<0.0001), while hospital admissions in northern regions have LOS 20% higher … predictor of LOS and, likely, overall use of hospital resources. Reducing TTC may generate both clinical and economic benefit …

expenses incurred by the hospital …

The paper develops empirical implementations of the standard time-varying Panel Bayesian VAR model to deal with …

extend the change point model to a multiple-change-point panel model. The hierarchical prior then shares in the cross …-sectional information of the break processes to estimate the transition probabilities. We apply our multiple-change-point panel model to a …

This paper constructs individual-specific density forecasts for a panel of firms or households using a dynamic linear … model with common and heterogeneous coefficients and cross-sectional heteroskedasticity. The panel considered in this paper …