profile choice formats focused on measuring patient preference for hearing aids. Methods: Respondents with hearing loss were …

human capital (general, hospital-specific and unit or team-specific) of the nursing team on the unit affects patients …

and improve health care access for low-income patients. We use administrative data from Kaiser Permanente to study the …

Most physicians today treat a variety of patients within their practices and operate in markets where a variety of … share rises, the differences between the treatment of non-HMO and HMO patients are attenuated. These results provide strong …

, using a unique set of audit studies. We sent standardized (fake) patients to rural primary care providers in the Indian … main findings. First, most private providers lacked formal medical training, but they spent more time with patients and …

patients with whom they have a pre-existing clinical relationship (their “own patients”) than when delivering patients with … patients' difficult labors. After a string of difficult labors, OBs are more likely to perform C-sections on their own patients …

Primary care physicians (PCPs) provide frontline health care to patients in the U.S.; however, it is unclear how their … health care utilization by focusing on Medicare patients affected by PCP relocations or retirements, which we refer to as … "exits." Observing where patients receive care after these exits, we estimate event studies to compare patients who switch to …