treatment. We relate mortality reduction to the additional costs for this treatment and conclude that PTCA treatment is cost …Medical technological progress has been shown to be the main driver of health care costs. A key policy question is … whether new treatment options are worth the additional costs. In this analysis we assess the causal effect of percutaneous …

for treatment costs. We relied on the Ontario Acute Myocardial Infarction Mortality Prediction Rules as a disease … in hospital costs by €100 to increase the hazard of dying, i.e. mortality, by 0.43%. The negative association between … costs and mortality confirms that increased resource input leads to better outcomes for treatment after AMI. -- hospital …

- the in-hospital mortality rate of insured heart attack patients. I employ panel data models using patient discharge and … significant effect that increases the mortality rate of insured heart attack patients. I show that these results are not driven by … spillover effects is increased hospital uncompensated care costs. Although data limitations constrain my capacity to check how …

| the in-hospital mortality rate of insured heart attack patients. I employ panel data models using patient discharge and … significant effect that increases the mortality rate of insured heart attack patients. I show that these results are not driven by … spillover effects is increased hospital uncompensated care costs. Although data limitations constrain my capacity to check how …

avoidable mortality from IHD.This is important, as the modernization of the East German health sector included a considerable …

For all climatic regions, mortality due to cold exceeds mortality due to heat. We examine whether cold …-related mortality in adulthood varies positively with unusually benign ambient temperature during gestation, using data on over 13 … rate of mortality due to cold-related IHD. However, we do not find such a relation for cold-related stroke mortality …

) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and … (across the full range) and CV mortality rate later in life is significantly stronger if the individual is born in a recession …