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 …

-level visits over 24 months in Massachusetts to answer this question. We find that patients are positively influenced by hospital … readmissions. This is because hospital advertisements drive patients to higher quality hospitals, which tend to advertise more and …Does hospital advertising influence patient choice and health outcomes? We examine more than 220,000 individual patient …