We examine whether loss of emergency department services is associated with county-level mortality rates in rural areas … emergency department closure on all-cause mortality; drug, alcohol, and suicide deaths; or AMI mortality. We find that closure …, as well as an increase in AMI mortality in the South and West …

find that cities with higher levels of mortality during the Great Influenza of 1918-1919 subsequently expanded hospital … capacity by more than cities experiencing less influenza mortality: cities in the top half of the mortality distribution …

questions of waste and productivity in the U.S. health care system. Using linked mortality and Electronic Medical Records, we …-year mortality rates by 4 deaths per 10,000. Instrumental variable estimates suggest that a cancelled appointment increased one …-year mortality by 29.7 deaths per 10,000 among compliers, implying that a 10% increase in health care appointments reduces mortality …

find that cities with higher levels of mortality during the Great Influenza of 1918-1919 subsequently expanded hospital … capacity by more than cities experiencing less influenza mortality: cities in the top half of the mortality distribution …

access to the hospital and modern medicine affects mortality. We do so by leveraging a combination of novel data and a unique … mortality by 10%, saving one life for every $20,000 (2017 dollars) spent. Effects were larger for Black infants (16%) than for … White infants (7%), implying a reduction in the Black-White infant mortality gap by one-third. We show that the effect of …