Prolonged hospital stays, or hospital stays that are longer than medically necessary, are a major concern for patients … hospital patients (65 years and older) in Brazil and Mexico. We develop a continuum-of-care conceptual framework based on prior … that leads to more complex admissions; (ii) hospital inefficiency; and (iii) lack of rehabilitation, social, and long …

care that were aimed at containing hospital expenditure in the Italian region of Emilia Romagna during the period 2002 … public payments made to GPs), together with information on the utilisation of hospital services. We employ a difference …-in-difference specification to assess changes in expenditures for avoidable and total hospital admissions. We identify the treatment group with …

facilities offer an open-access service for patients not requiring hospital treatments, and may be staffed by nurses and … located alongside the teaching hospital's ED. We examine the link between the utilisation rates of the FaC and primary care …