In this paper we investigate the existence of a two-tier medical system in the German acute care hospital sector using … data from a survey of 483 German hospitals. The focus of our analysis lies on the impact of hospital concentration on the … probability of discrimination of patients with different health insurances in regard to the access to medical services. Accounting …

offer their patients at regular times. To assess the magnitude of these effects, this study analyzes the effects of low … staff-to-patients ratios on patient outcomes empirically. We use the variation of patient admissions over time as a proxy … demand on outcomes is biased upwards. The reason is that when demand is high more patients with a higher unobservable frailty …

times than patients with statutory health insurance (SHI) in German acute hospital care. This behavior may be driven by the …This paper shows that patients with private health insurance (PHI) are being offered significantly shorter waiting …

of an increase in Danish pharmaceuticals exports. The model predicts that consumption and output increase following an …

Erhöht der Off-Label-Konsum verschreibungspflichtiger Arzneimittel die Invalidität und die Gesundheitskosten? In dieser … institutionalisierten US-Bevölkerung zu ermitteln. Patienten, die Arzneimittel außerhalb der Zulassung verwenden, haben im Durchschnitt 515 … to evaluate off-label vs. on-label drug use in the US non-institutionalized population. Patients using drugs off …