diagnosis, deprivation and geographical variation. We therefore interpret such differences as due to efficiency as opposed to …

Ambulance response time to emergency calls is a key indicator of a health system's efficiency although its impact on … response time is 0.9 and that of the likelihood of death before reaching the hospital is 5. Finally, the economic value of time … efficiency …

, cross-sectional study of clinical and financial records for all ED visits to an urban, academic hospital in 2001 …, hospital inpatient length of stay, payment method, costs, and demographics. Results: Patients with three to 20 visits were more … likely to be admitted to the hospital than patients visiting once or twice. Patients visiting more than 20 times were less …

We develop a dynamic model of hospital competition where (i) waiting times increase if demand exceeds supply; (ii …) patients choose a hospital based in part on waiting times; and (iii) hospitals incur waiting time penalties. We show that … to higher waiting times. These results are robust to different game-theoretic solution concepts, designs of the hospital …

We measure one aspect of how access to emergency care through ambulance services changes for patients when a hospital … period immediately after the hospital closes. We find urban patients in zip codes where a hospital closes have a small change … to transport a patient from the location of the incident to the hospital. The impact on rural Medicare-eligible patients …