Title of thesis: INPATIENT MORTALITY IN EMERGENCY CARE: IS COMPETITION ALWAYS GOOD? Veronica Kwok, Master of Health Services Administration, 2014 Thesis directed by: Assistant Professor, Jie Chen Department of Health Services Administration The objective of this study was to measure the association between regional competition and emergency care outcomes. Competition was measured using the Herf...

OBJECTIVES To assess the association between market concentration of hospitals (as a proxy for competition) and patient-reported health gains after elective primary hip replacement surgery. METHODS Patient Reported Outcome Measures data linked to NHS Hospital Episode Statistics in England in 2011/12 were used to analyse the association between market concentration of hospitals measured by the...

The primary goal of the present study is to find an adequate method for the quantitative analysis of empirical data obtained from parallel corpora. Such a task is particularly important in the case of fixed constructions possessing some degree of idiomaticity and language specificity. Our data consist of the Russian construction дело в том, что and its parallels in English, German and Swedish. ...

BACKGROUND There are over 250 kidney transplant programs in the USA. OBJECTIVE To determine if highly competitive regions, defined as regions with a higher number of transplant centers, will approve and wait-list more end-stage renal disease (ESRD) candidates for transplant despite consistent incidence and prevalence of ESRD nationwide. METHODS ESRD Network and OPTN data completed in 2011 w...

OBJECTIVES The degrees of market competition usually influence providers' behaviors. This study investigated the influence of medical market competition on the utilization of dental care under the global budget payment system. This study also examined the relative factors that influence the utilization of dental care. METHODS This study used the healthcare sub-regions (HCSRs) in the healthcar...

OBJECTIVES We investigate how much state-to-state elderly migration patterns have changed during 1970-2000 and compare the findings from 2 commonly used sources of data, the census flow tabulations and the integrated public use microdata series (IPUMS). METHODS We calculate descriptive statistics such as migration rates, the distribution of top destination and origin states, and a new migrati...

OBJECTIVE This paper analyzes whether the rise in managed care during the 1990s caused the increase in hospital concentration. DATA SOURCES We assemble data from the American Hospital Association, InterStudy and government censuses from 1990 to 2000. STUDY DESIGN We employ linear regression analyses on long differenced data to estimate the impact of managed care penetration on hospital cons...

Can more vigorous political competition significantly raise rural land values, or contribute to more robust land rental markets? Exploiting exogenous variation in the national popularity of Pakistan’s political parties during the 2008 elections, we show that provincial assembly constituencies with greater competition between political parties had significantly higher land values and more active...

Market concentration ratios are popular statistics for characterizing the extent of market dominance in an imperfectly competitive market, but these ratios may not agree when comparing two markets. Neither do they necessarily agree with the Herfindahl-Hirschman or entropy indices. This letter compares two Cournot oligopoly markets in which firms have constant unit costs. It is shown that the ma...

This study aims to provide a deeper understanding of income diversification carried out by banks and guidelines for future researchers in conducting research related the relationship between bank stability. The method used this is Systematic Literature Review (SLR), which identifies assesses findings previous studies order guide further future. There was 1 article from conference papers working...