Chilean Public Hospital Mortality and Management Data

This dataset supports a study on the impact of manager quality on public health service provision. It contains novel data from public hospitals in Chile, used to show that a policy change in CEO recruitment reduced hospital mortality by 8%. The analysis links this effect to a shift in CEO profiles from doctors without management training to those with management education.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between CEO management training and hospital mortality rates.
• Study the effect of a competitive recruitment system on public hospital performance metrics.
• Investigate how changes in CEO quality drive productivity improvements in specific hospitals.
• Examine patient composition data to rule it out as an explanation for mortality changes.

Strengths

• Data is derived from a novel study on public hospitals in Chile.
• The associated research quantifies a specific 8% reduction in hospital mortality.
• The dataset is tagged with specific analytical themes like Mortality Rates and Public Sector Management.

Limitations

• The specific column structure, row count, and file formats are unknown.
• The data's temporal coverage and exact geographic granularity within Chile are not specified.
• Sample data is unavailable for previewing data structure and quality.

Provenance

Source

ICPSR Harvested Dataverse, authored by Cristóbal Otero.

Collection Method

Novel data collected from public hospitals in Chile, as described in the accompanying study.

Freshness

The metadata was last updated on 2026-02-23.

Geography

Public hospitals in Chile.