Schwierz, Christoph; Augurzky, Boris; Focke, Axel; … - 2008
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 …
