the German birth statistics 1996 to 2010 and German hospital data from 2006 to 2011, we estimate that since the …

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 …

For some considerable time now the interface between ambulatory and hospital care has been mooted as a cause of … model which allows the numbers of ambulatory and hospital cases to be mutually interdependent, we examine the connection … between ambulatory and hospital specialist care separately for ten medical specialties. The results show that the …