Hospitals

Journal Article

Sep 20, 2024

Efficiency in Organizational Structure? Assessing Heterogeneous Effects in Hospital-Physician Integration

Using a 100% national sample of Medicare data, we estimate the impacts of hospital-physician integration using parametric and nonparametric quantile differences-in-differences approaches.

Journal Article

Sep 3, 2024

Identifying Where Hospital and Community Trusts Are Managing General Practices in England: A Service Mapping Study

More organisations that provide secondary care in the NHS are now also providing primary health care, but there is little data on the impact of this. This study aimed to compile a list of secondary care trusts running general practices in England.

Journal Article

Aug 21, 2024

The Association Between Hospital Occupancy and Mortality Among Medicare Patients

The objective of this study was to determine how increasing hospital occupancy is associated with the likelihood of inpatient and 30-day out-of-hospital mortality using a novel measure of inpatient occupancy.

Journal Article

Aug 14, 2024

Mixed Mode Substantially Increases Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Response Rates Relative to Single-Mode Protocols

The aim of this study was to estimate the differences in response rates and patient representation between mixed mode and single-mode approaches.

Journal Article

May 31, 2024

Ransomware Attacks, ED Visits and Inpatient Admissions in Targeted and Nearby Hospitals

This paper studied the implications of hospital ransomware attacks on inpatient and emergency department visits. It considered how the attacked hospital was affected and how nearby hospitals were impacted.

Report

Mar 27, 2024

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Methodologies to Measure Upcoding in Provider Settings: A Scoping Review

This report provides a scoping review of methodologies to measure health care provider upcoding, a practice in which hospitals code more secondary diagnoses or complications so that admissions or visits are coded at higher complexity levels.

Journal Article

Nov 2, 2023

Vertical Integration of General Practices with Acute Hospitals in England: Rapid Impact Evaluation

This study drew on previous research into NHS hospitals taking over running general practices, and evaluated whether hospital-run practices affect patient satisfaction and attendance, including for patients with long-term conditions.

Journal Article

Sep 5, 2023

Changes in Patient Experiences of Hospital Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Did patient hospital experiences change during the COVID-19 pandemic and, if so, did the changes differ across hospitals with different patient-staff ratios and prepandemic quality (hospital overall star rating)?

Journal Article

Aug 16, 2023

Improving the Quality of Written Discharge Instructions: A Multisite Collaborative Project

Participation in this 8-hospital Institute for Healthcare Improvement Virtual Breakthrough Series collaborative was associated with improvement in the quality of written discharge instructions beyond precollaborative trends only for hospitals with high baseline performance.

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Efficiency in Organizational Structure? Assessing Heterogeneous Effects in Hospital-Physician Integration

Identifying Where Hospital and Community Trusts Are Managing General Practices in England: A Service Mapping Study

The Association Between Hospital Occupancy and Mortality Among Medicare Patients

Mixed Mode Substantially Increases Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Response Rates Relative to Single-Mode Protocols

Ransomware Attacks, ED Visits and Inpatient Admissions in Targeted and Nearby Hospitals

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Methodologies to Measure Upcoding in Provider Settings: A Scoping Review

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Vertical Integration of General Practices with Acute Hospitals in England: Rapid Impact Evaluation

Changes in Patient Experiences of Hospital Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Improving the Quality of Written Discharge Instructions: A Multisite Collaborative Project

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