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 …

We measure whether expert patients - those trained as physicians and nurses - have fewer emergency department visits … and the reasons for these differences. Relative to similar patients physicians and nurses had 19.8% and 5.1% fewer ED … visits, principally due to fewer avoidable visits. The differences in avoidable visits between physicians and other patients …

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 …

Medicare pricing is known to indirectly influence provider prices and care provision for non-Medicare patients; however … choices for non-Medicare patients responded to Medicare removing a ban on ambulatory surgery center (ASC) use for a specific … procedure. Following the rule change, surgeons began reallocating both Medicare and commercially insured patients to ASCs …

can attend an in-network hospital, but receive care from an out-of-network physician. Because patients do not choose their …

department (ED) utilization using detailed data on 150,000 patients who moved regions within Israel. We document that about half … hospital admission (that is, via the ED), implying that the entire change in ED use by movers is driven by ED visits that do … not lead to hospital admission. Similar results are obtained in a complementary event study, which uses hospital entry as …

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

cream skimming, i.e., choosing patients for some characteristic(s) other than their need for care, which enhances the … estimates of hospital ownership type consist of the impact of differential patient case mix (selection) and hospital cost … likely to treat high-cost patients than not-for-profit (NFP) hospitals, showing no evidence that FP hospitals engage in cream …