We provide an analysis of the effect of physician payment methods on their hospital patients' length of stay and risk … patients' health by more than a critical level, they will stay more days in hospital over the period. At the empirical level …. We find that the hospital length of stay of patients treated in departments that opted for the MC system increased on …

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 …

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 …

hospitalization puts patients at risk of hospital acquired conditions and disrupts their lives. We use variation in the patient …'s nearest hospital's propensity to admit patients with similar observable characteristics as an instrument for the admission … decision to hospitalize elderly Medicare patients who present at the emergency room (ER) with respiratory conditions. Failing …

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 …

patients. Thus, targeting provider incentives through alternative payment models, such as episode-based reimbursement, is more …

Using a randomized field experiment, we show that health care specialists cream-skim patients by their expected …

the agency model that health care professionals understand what their patients want. Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs …) are conducted simultaneously within samples of patients (women who gave birth) and care-givers (doctors and nurses), to … elicit and contrast patients' authentic preferences (for five maternity ward attributes) with what care-givers believe them …

availability. In the patient preferences field experiment, we find that patients strongly prefer doctors educated in the United …