hip fracture patients and with this the practice-makes-perfect hypothesis has an even stronger effect on hospital quality …

This paper examines the causal effect of the experience of a hospital with treating hip fractures (volume) on treatment … hospital. Our results indicate that after application of an IV regression of volume on outcome, volume significantly increases …

We study the employees' demand for hospital parking. We estimate the effect of the employees' parking price on demand …

or by other changes at the hospital level. …

variation in mortality rates between weekend and weekday admissions. Patients admitted during the weekend exhibit higher in-hospital … probability to be readmitted as emergency cases. -- Hospital quality ; weekend effect ; inpatient outcomes …

responsiveness to changes in demand for hospital services in Germany between 1996 and 2006. With respect to the speed of adaptation … owned hospitals. Thus, the study finds evidence that to some extent the privatization of the hospital sector may be an … adequate answer to reduce excess capacities. -- Hospital ownership ; privatization ; hospital market structure …

This paper examines the effects of hospital case volume on quality of care on the example of intact abdominal aortic …. Quality is measured with a binary variable which indicates whether the patient has died in hospital. The results show that …. -- Volume ; hospital quality ; mortality …

context of hospital survival rates. We further discuss the implications for hospital capacity planning and the wider … implications for service operations management. -- Service quality ; service outcomes ; organizational workload ; hospital capacity …

from a mother's residence to the closest hospital. We find that giving birth in a hospital leads to substantial reductions …