Using simulated patients to mimic nine established non-communicable and infectious diseases over 27 trials, we assess … to infectious ones. These results highlight the need for cautious AI integration in healthcare systems to ensure quality …

a streamlined appointment process on hospital operations and the alignment of healthcare supply and demand. Using a … from a subset of patients' electronic medical records, we also find that the app directs patients to the hospital and … longitudinal dataset on hospital operations and a difference-in-differences model, we document that the app increases completed …

between patients affiliated with healthcare professionals and their counterpart patients not affiliated with healthcare … professionals. Using the China Labor-force Dynamics Survey (CLDS) in 2014, we identified 806 patients affiliated with healthcare … professionals and 22,788 patients not affiliated with healthcare professionals. The matched outpatient proportion of patients not …

Low healthcare quality has been found to predict the development of several illnesses in older adults, while the … evidence on dementia is still lacking. This study assesses whether and to what extent experiencing low healthcare quality can … healthcare quality was assessed at baseline through healthcare discrimination and dissatisfaction with healthcare services. The …

world, imposing increasing burdens on the public health and healthcare systems. Despite improved access to health services …, inadequate and uneven dementia management remains common. We document the provincial-level geographic patterns in healthcare … utilization, outcomes, and costs for patients hospitalized for dementia in China. Regional patterns demonstrate gaps in equity and …

provision of hospital care. After the referendum, a sharp drop in the number of early-career new joiners from Europe resulted in … strategy, we find that emergency readmission rates increased, and more so in hospital organizations more exposed to the missing …

We estimate the impact of nurse unions on health care quality using patient discharge data and the universe of hospital … hospital-specific trends, we find that unionized hospitals also outperform hospitals without any union election in the same 12 …

reporting in Kenyan health clinics. We recruit patients and health care providers from public and private health clinics to play … a series of modified Trust Games. In the game, patients can send money to providers, who are then able to reciprocate …. Patients can then file complaints if they are unhappy with the provider's level of reciprocity. We examine patient and provider …

birth in hospitals participating in the program is an increasing function of expected hospital demand at the time of the …

encouraging GPs to refer fewer patients to hospital specialists. This could have an impact on elective treatment levels …In England as elsewhere, policy makers are trying to reduce the pressure on costs due to rising hospital admissions by … data from Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) in England we estimate dynamic fixed effects panel data models for emergency …