hospital admissions for ambulatory care sensitive conditions as a measure of the accessibility and quality of primary care. We … build a fixed-effects model for district-level data on paediatric hospital admissions and the utilisation of primary care …-care physician has on the composition of paediatric hospital admissions. We find no significant relationship between the variables of …

comparison of the eHealth Index, the ranking of the regions in the Czech Republic was determined from the most successful to the …

Physicians and pharmacists in Taiwan both prescribed and dispensed drugs; many elderly people considered the two types … citizens and a separation policy (SP) that forbids physicians from dispensing and pharmacists from prescribing drugs. I find … visited pharmacists become more likely to also visit physicians after NHI was implemented. On the other hand, through legal …

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 …

We provide an in-depth analysis of the price effects of two hospital mergers that occurred in the north shore suburbs … of Chicago in early 2000: Evanston Northwestern Healthcare's (ENH) purchase of Highland Park Hospital (HPH) and the … merger of St. Therese Medical Center (STMC) and Victory Memorial Hospital (VMH). Using standard difference …

The Federal Trade Commission initiated a Hospital Merger Retrospective Project in 2002 to analyze the effects of … Columbia Cape Fear Memorial Hospital ("Cape Fear") in Wilmington, North Carolina. In this paper, we employ patient-level claims …

, received fewer new migrant physicians. By our estimates half of all US states could resolve their physician shortages within …

The for-profit hospital is in the minority numerically in all developed countries. Although the for-profits' market … contrast, for-profit chains have made few inroads in other countries. The literature on hospital ownership addresses three … fundamental questions. First, why do private not-for-profit organizations dominate the hospital industry? Second, how do private …

results of ownership-induced differences in hospital mortality rates within the SUS …