We estimate the impact of nurse unions on health care quality using patient discharge data and the universe of hospital … hospital-specific trends, we find that unionized hospitals also outperform hospitals without any union election in the same 12 …

emergency cases that do not all require hospital care. Many countries have responded by introducing alternative facilities that … area of a hospital reduces hospital outpatient procedures and admissions and that this is associated with improved hospital … cases going to hospital but rather from hospital resources being re-focused. In a significant departure from related …

hospitalization puts patients at risk of hospital acquired conditions and disrupts their lives. We use variation in the patient …'s nearest hospital's propensity to admit patients with similar observable characteristics as an instrument for the admission … we find that the marginal hospital admission increases the number of hospital days by seven days and increases charges by …

We provide an analysis of the effect of physician payment methods on their hospital patients' length of stay and risk … introduced an optional mixed compensation (MC) scheme for specialist physicians working in hospital. This scheme combines a fixed … patients' health by more than a critical level, they will stay more days in hospital over the period. At the empirical level …

used containing quarterly information on healthcare costs (care by general practitioner (GP), hospital care, pharmaceutical … hospital stays and fewer prescription drugs. Since the differences are obtained while controlling for confounders including …