@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp7082,
            	author={Gobillon, Laurent and Milcent, Carine},
            	title={Evaluating the Effect of Ownership Status on Hospital Quality: The Key Role of Innovative Procedures},
            	year={2012},
	month={Dec},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={7082},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp7082},
	abstract={Mortality differences between university, non-teaching public and for-profit hospitals are investigated using a French exhaustive administrative dataset on patients admitted for heart attack. Our results show that innovative procedures play a key role in explaining the effect of ownership status on hospital quality. When age, sex, diagnoses and co-morbidities are held constant, the mortality rates in for-profit and university hospitals are similar, but they are lower than in public non-teaching hospitals. When additionally controlling for innovative procedures, the mortality rate is higher in for-profit hospitals than in the two groups of public hospitals. This suggests that the quality of care in for-profit hospitals relies on innovative procedures and that, after controlling for case-mix and innovative treatments, there is a better quality of care in public hospitals.},
	keywords={hospital performance;innovative procedures;hospital quality;stratified duration model},
            }