Does competition in the out-patient sector improve quality of medical care? : evidence from administrative data

Magdalena A. Stroka-Wetsch, Anna Talmann, and Roland Linder

We use administrative data from the largest sickness fund in Germany to analyze the relationship between the district density of general and medical practitioner and the quality of care provided to the frail elderly. The quality of care is studied considering prescriptions of potentially inappropriate drugs. We find evidence for a significant positive effect of the share of general and medical practitioners in the population on the provided outpatient health care services.

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Year of publication:	September 2016
Authors:	Stroka, Magdalena A. ; Talmann, Anna ; Linder, Roland
Publisher:	Bochum, Germany : Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), Department of Economics
Subject:	Priscus-list \| inappropriate medication \| drugs \| fixed-effects \| administrative data \| elderly \| competition \| quality of medical supply \| Wettbewerb \| Competition \| Arzneimittel \| Pharmaceuticals \| Gesundheitswesen \| Health care system \| Produktqualität \| Product quality \| Schätzung \| Estimation \| Ältere Menschen \| Elderly people

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 21 Seiten)
Series:	Ruhr economic papers. - Essen : RWI, ISSN 1864-4872, ZDB-ID 2278825-6. - Vol. # 638
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Notes:	Zusammenfassung in deutscher Sprache
ISBN:	978-3-86788-742-7
Other identifiers:	10.4419/86788742 [DOI] hdl:10419/146354 [Handle]
Classification:	I10 - Health. General
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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