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This paper examines the effects of hospital case volume on quality of care on the example of intact abdominal aortic …. Quality is measured with a binary variable which indicates whether the patient has died in hospital. The results show that …. -- Volume ; hospital quality ; mortality …
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variation in mortality rates between weekend and weekday admissions. Patients admitted during the weekend exhibit higher in-hospital … probability to be readmitted as emergency cases. -- Hospital quality ; weekend effect ; inpatient outcomes …
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Birth weight manipulation is common in per-case hospital reimbursement systems, in which hospitals receive more money … the quantity and quality of care that newborns receive. Based on the universe of hospital births in Germany from the years …
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Birth weight manipulation is common in per-case hospital reimbursement systems, in which hospitals receive more money … the quantity and quality of care that newborns receive. Based on the universe of hospital births in Germany from the years …
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German hospital sector. Methods: We use a full sample of administrative data from the unselected, complete German hospital … population for the years 2005 to 2007. We apply regression methods to analyze the association between volume and hospital quality …. We measure hospital quality with a binary variable, which indicates whether the patient has died in hospital. Using …
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hospital sector. We use a full sample of administrative data from the unselected, complete German hospital population for the … years 2005 to 2007. We apply regression methods to analyze the association between volume and hospital quality. We measure … hospital quality with a binary variable, which indicates whether the patient has died in hospital. Using simulation techniques …
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In this study we investigate the relationship between nursing staffing levels and hospital quality in Germany. We use … measures. To analyze the association between nursing staffing levels and hospital quality indicators empirically, we estimate … linear regression models and control for a wide range of hospital and patient characteristics that might bias the results. In …
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This paper analyses the effects of hospital closures in Germany in the context of emergency medical care for patients … the impact of hospital closures between 2006 and 2012 on geographical healthcare access and several patient clinical … outcomes. To minimize bias from the potential endogeneity between the hospital quality and market structure, I employ an …
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In times of peak demand hospitals may fail to deliver the high standard of treatment quality that they are able to 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...
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