Salvador. Using a panel dataset of municipalities spanning 2009-2018 from consultation and hospital records of almost 4 million …

of the hospital from a fringe institution to one essential to the practice of medicine. Despite the central role of …. In this paper, we explore how access to the hospital and modern medicine affects mortality. We do so by leveraging a … combination of novel data and a unique quasi-experiment: a large-scale hospital modernization program introduced by The Duke …

We measure one aspect of how access to emergency care through ambulance services changes for patients when a hospital … period immediately after the hospital closes. We find urban patients in zip codes where a hospital closes have a small change … to transport a patient from the location of the incident to the hospital. The impact on rural Medicare-eligible patients …

information on nosocomial infections and on the timing and type of medical errors were retrieved from various hospital …

emergency cases that do not all require hospital care. Many countries have responded by introducing alternative facilities that … area of a hospital reduces hospital outpatient procedures and admissions and that this is associated with improved hospital … cases going to hospital but rather from hospital resources being re-focused. In a significant departure from related …

services on maternal and infant health. Since basic medical care has been universally available in Ukraine, implementation of …

development of regional health services shifted both perceptions of, and preferences for, using the NHS, making it more likely …