The contingent valuation (CV) method is an attractive approach for comparing home care to hospital care in which the … only difference is patients' well-being during the treatment process and not health outcomes. We considered the empirical … situation of blood transfusion (BT) in cancer patients and collected willingness to pay (WTP) values among BT users. Our main …

This paper explores the history of corporate law through the Case of Sutton's Hospital. The case is among the oldest …

three important questions pertaining to the operations and effectiveness of such systems by studying the public hospital … patients are aware of (and sensitive to) the ED WT announcements? (2) How sensitive are these patients to the announced WT? (3 … visits to the 17 tier one public EDs. We structurally estimate the fraction of patients sensitive to the announced WT and …

The present study empirically explores a theoretical model of co-creation, technological innovation, guest satisfaction … positive relationship between co-creation, technological innovation, guest satisfaction and revisit intention. It was found … revisit the same hotel again and again in the future period. The direct relationship between guest satisfaction and revisit …

are lifted is unclear. We assessed the short- and medium-term impacts of the first lockdown measures on hospital care for …. Methods: We used OpenSAFELY (for England), EAVEII (Scotland), and SAIL Databank (Wales) to extract weekly hospital admission …-September) during the pre-pandemic years.Interpretation: Hospital care for non-COVID diseases fell substantially across England …

A common surge-capacity policy in busy emergency departments (EDs) is to admit patients from the waiting area to …-to-departure (R2D) time and likelihood of adverse outcomes. We find that patients placed in a hallway bed experience a 20 minute (28 …%) lower door-to-doctor time. This reduction is 50 minutes (76%) for low-acuity patients who are treated in a fast-track area …