We evaluate the effect of a pro-competition reform gradually introduced in France over the 2004-2008 period on hospital … are all under a DRG-based payment system after the reform. For each hospital status, we assess the benefits of local … hospital level to take into account hospital unobserved heterogeneity and censorship in the duration of stays in a flexible way …

role in explaining the effect of ownership status on hospital quality. When age, sex, diagnoses and co-morbidities are held … hospitals. -- hospital performance ; innovative procedures ; stratified duration model ; hospital quality …

same period, we estimate that the current albeit low vaccination rate avoided 300 hospital and 77 ICU admissions. With the …