Each year about 20% of the 10 million hospital inpatients in Italy get admitted to hospitals outside the Local Health … hospital care using a Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood method. Consistency of the PPML estimator is guaranteed under the null … of independence provided that the conditional mean is correctly specified. In our case we find that patients’ flows are …

Each year about 20% of the 10 million hospital inpatients in Italy get admitted to hospitals outside the Local Health … hospital care using a Poisson pseudo maximum likelihood method. Consistency of the PPML estimator is guaranteed under the null … of independence provided that the conditional mean is correctly specified. In our case we find that patients' flows are …