appointments within an acceptable time frame. We exploited longitudinal experimental data to examine waiting times for six elective … favoring private patients. For SHI holders, waiting times remained stable over time (27.5 days in 2014; 30.7 days in 2016; ? 3 … Wartezeiten zugunsten der privatversicherten Patienten beobachtet. Für GKV-Patienten blieben die Wartezeiten über die Zeit …

This paper comprehensively studies the health effects of Daylight Saving Time (DST) regulation. Relying on up to 3 ….4 million BRFSS respondents from the US and the universe of 160 million hospital admissions from Germany over one decade, we do …

emergency admissions only, which are reasonably exogenous to the time of admission. Further, we introduce a direct measure for … 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 …