Econometrics, the application of statistical methods to economic data, can be instrumental in the identification of ...

As private equity firms continue to increase their ownership stake in various health care sectors in the US, questions arise about potential impacts on the organization and delivery of care. Using a ...

Descriptive studies have suggested that the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) health insurance Marketplaces improved access to care. However, no evidence from quasi-experimental studies is available to ...

Patient care experiences worsened after private equity firms took over hospitals, according to a difference-in-differences analysis. From 2008 to 2019, the percentage of patients rating hospitals a 9 ...

We conducted a prospective cohort study among 5,598 participants age 40-74 years between 2012 and 2020 in Tianjin, China. Inverse probability weighting was adopted to adjust for potential imbalanced ...