• Mortality and subsequent healthcare use among older patients discharged to a municipality with excess demand for elderly care 

      Bjørnelv, Gudrun Maria Waaler; Asheim, Andreas; Nilsen, Sara Marie; Anthun, Kjartan Sarheim; Carlsen, Fredrik; Aam, Stina; Kimbell, Elizabeth Anna; Bjørngaard, Johan Håkon (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      There is limited knowledge on how excess demand for elderly care influences patient outcomes. We used a natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of discharging elderly patients from hospital to municipalities with ...
    • Scale and quality in Nordic hospitals 

      Kittelsen, Sverre A.C.; Anthun, Kjartan Sarheim; Häkkinen, Unto; Kruse, Marie; Rehnberg, Clas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Empirical analysis of hospitals in production economics often find little or no evidence of scale economies and quite small optimal sizes. Medical literature on the other hand provides evidence of better results for hospitals ...