section of about 32,000 patients for an ED located in the Southwestern United States. We construct a measure of a patient’s … overcrowding tends to generate a negative outcome for all patients. We also find that this negative outcome is larger for those on …

Objectives: To determine if differences exist in hospital and intensive care unit (ICU)/operating room admission rates … based on health insurance status. Methods: This was a retrospective, cross-sectional study of data from hospital clinical … and financial records for all 2001 emergency department (ED) visits (80,209) to an academic urban hospital. Hospital …

for inpatient care, as the number of days from doctor’s advice until hospital confinement. Given our dependent variables …

privately owned hospitals to enter the market. We show that, post-reform, poor and ethnic minority patients were much less … suggest differences in health explain 18% of the difference in the use of private providers between rich and poor patients …