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 …

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 …

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

availability. In the patient preferences field experiment, we find that patients strongly prefer doctors educated in the United … substantial underutilization of FBPs relative to US-born physicians and suggest that a sizable share of the US healthcare provider …

-income countries for primary healthcare delivery. We exploit the rollout of a nation-wide expansion of coverage to this model in El … Salvador. Using a panel dataset of municipalities spanning 2009-2018 from consultation and hospital records of almost 4 million … episodes, we show that investing in community-based healthcare, which relied on less-specialized health workers, led to a more …

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 …