encouraging patients to view hospitals as an all-purpose care provider; geographically targeting the expansion of their services … to 'capture' well-insured patients, while placing greater pressure on patients to pay for the services delivered … as 19% of all discharged patients. When hospitals and similar health care facilities fail to adequately manage the …

effect on health. A potential explanation is that, by reducing the cost of malpractice, caps affect physicians’ incentives to …

If medical malpractice reform affects the supply of physicians, the effects will be concentrated in specialties facing … is low. This difference can be exploited to isolate the causal effect of medical malpractice reform on the supply of … malpractice reform, we show that only caps on noneconomic damages have a statistically significant effect on the per capita number …

outcome for patients. A full sample of administrative data from Germany for the year 2007 is used. We apply an instrumental … instruments for case volume we use the number of potential patients and the number of further hospitals in the region around every …

This paper examines the causal effect of volume on outcome on the example of patients with a hip fracture. We use an … hip fracture patients and with this the practice-makes-perfect hypothesis has an even stronger effect on hospital quality …

from a subset of patients' electronic medical records, we also find that the app directs patients to the hospital and …

, I analyze the effect of 18 recent hospital closures in Germany on patients’ driving times and the probability to be … residents who live in areas where a hospital closed, showing that the closure seems to affect patients’ care. …

constraints, SP caused all elderly patients more likely to only visit physicians, a result against its policy goal …

outcome for patients. A full sample of administrative data from Germany for the year 2007 is used. We apply an instrumental … instruments for case volume we use the number of potential patients and the number of further hospitals in the region around every …

(private health maintenance organization, preferred provider organization, worker's compensation, and Medicare) patients …. Results: Compared with the other insured group, underinsured patients were less likely, overall, to be admitted to the …