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 … model is a good framework for explaining patient mobility in most of the examined diagnostic groups. We find that the …

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 … model is a good framework for explaining patient mobility in most of the examined diagnostic groups. We find that the …