Life expectancy varies substantially across local regions within a country, raising
conjectures that place of residence affects health. However, population sorting and other …

Blockchain has applications in a broad range of settings, including healthcare (eg, patient
data management, health supply chain management, financial and insurance claims, and …

Medical records play a crucial role in delivering high-quality healthcare by facilitating
accurate diagnosis, treatment, and patient monitoring. However, manual, paper-based …

Non-random sorting can bias observational measures of institutional quality and distort
quality-based polices. I develop alternative quasi-experimental approaches to quality …

As COVID-19 spread across Brazil, it quickly reached remote regions including Amazon's
ultra-peripheral locations where patient transportation through rivers is added to the list of …

Surgeons may not have a thorough knowledge about the costs of devices or surgical
equipment. The main reason for this in many systems is price insensitivity. The purpose of …

Hospitals in the US compete on price and quality. There are fears that because of general
idiosyncrasies in the market for health care services, competition between hospitals will not …

A colorful history of US research universities, and a market-based theory of their global
success. American education has its share of problems, but it excels in at least one area …

Ambulances are a vital part of emergency medical services. However, they come in single,
high intervention form, which is at times unnecessary, resulting in excessive costs for …

Medical labour markets are important because of their size and the importance of medical
labour in the production of healthcare and in subsequent patient outcomes. We present a …