We examine whether obtaining prescription drug insurance through the Medicare Part D program affected hospital … admissions, expenditures associated with those admissions, and mortality. We use a large, geographically diverse sample of … drug insurance on hospitalizations and mortality. Results indicate that obtaining prescription drug insurance through …

hospital admission. We show that chronic and disabled individuals require greater post-discharge medical assistance especially … future hospitalizations. Alternative out-of-hospital management practices are discussed as a post-admission cost …

same period, we estimate that the current albeit low vaccination rate avoided 300 hospital and 77 ICU admissions. With the …

This paper examines the causal effect of the experience of a hospital with treating hip fractures (volume) on treatment … outcome for patients. A full sample of administrative data from Germany for the year 2007 is used. We apply an instrumental … instruments for case volume we use the number of potential patients and the number of further hospitals in the region around every …

hip fracture patients and with this the practice-makes-perfect hypothesis has an even stronger effect on hospital quality …This paper examines the causal effect of volume on outcome on the example of patients with a hip fracture. We use an …