We conducted a literature review of studies on Physician Assistants working in a variety of settings and found few evaluation studies on the costs and/or effectiveness of Physician Assistants in primary care practices, Emergency Departments and in hospital settings other than Emergency...

In this paper we present a general model that enables us to better understand the decision made by physicians about the level of medical care provided to their patients when faced with a probability of suit in case of harm done to the patient as a result of the treatment. We first describe the...

In recent years many empirical studies have reported substantial differences in people's responses to willingness-to-pay vs compensation questions in the context of measuring potential economic losses. This paper offers an alternative explanation to this phenomenon. We claim that such...

Recent publications have acknowledged the theoretical superiority of the healthy years equivalent (HYE) concept over quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs), but have raised questions about the practicality of measuring them. We describe a simple, two-stage, lottery-based approach to measure HYEs...

Effective management and productive use of health care expenditures in Canada requires that primary care doctors in Canada be paid by means of a system which more closely reflects the goal of improving the health of the population and that means replacing the current fee-for-service system. This...