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 …

times than patients with statutory health insurance (SHI) in German acute hospital care. This behavior may be driven by the …This paper shows that patients with private health insurance (PHI) are being offered significantly shorter waiting …