human capital (general, hospital-specific and unit or team-specific) of the nursing team on the unit affects patients … use detailed longitudinal monthly data on nursing units in the Veterans Administration hospital system to identify how the …

patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). We first document that large increases in driving time to closest ED are more … health outcomes among Medicare patients with AMI who lived in 24,567 ZIP codes that experienced no change, an increase of <10 … and treatment, patients with the longest delays experienced a 6.58 (95% CI 2.49, 10.68) and 6.52 (95% CI 1.69, 11 …

sample is Emergency Department physicians in Florida, where we have the universe of data on patients and how they are treated … to patients with conditions similar to what the physician is reported for. The results suggest significant, if modest …

out-of-network emergency physician working at that hospital. Because patients do not choose their emergency physician … can attend an in-network hospital emergency department, but receive care and potentially a large, unexpected bill from an …

: consumer surplus from a hospital demand system and the fraction of population hospital admissions that would be covered by the …

. For patients with diagnoses of Pneumonia or Acute Myocardial Infarction, an additional day in the hospital could decrease … reducing mortality rates far exceed the cost of keeping these patients in the hospital for an additional day … as important indicators of hospital quality. Concerns have been raised, however, as to whether post-discharge mortality …

migration of Medicare patients to separate the role of demand and supply factors. Our approach allows us to account for demand …

missing. We study a nationwide SMS appointment reminder program in Chile for chronic disease patients at public primary care … visits per by 5.1% on average. The program did not change the number of visits by chronic patients eligible to receive the … reminder, but it instead increased visits by other patients, ineligible to receive reminders in clinics that adopted the …