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Taking the CON out of Pennsylvania : did hip and knee replacement patients benefit?

Averett, Susan; Terrizzi, Sabrina; Yang Wang - 2017

of health care for patients undergoing hip and knee replacement surgery. We use the standard difference …

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Geographic variation in inpatient care utilization, outcomes and costs for dementia patients in China

Lin, Zhuoer; Ba, Fang; Allore, Heather; Liu, Gordon G.; … - 2022

utilization, outcomes, and costs for patients hospitalized for dementia in China. Regional patterns demonstrate gaps in equity and … efficiency of dementia care and management for dementia patients. Health policy and practices should consider geographic …

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Foreign nurses and hospital quality : evidence from Brexit

Castro-Pires, Henrique; Mello, Marco; Moscelli, Giuseppe - 2023

We exploit the 2016 Brexit referendum as a migration shock to evaluate the impact of reduced labour supply on the provision of hospital care. After the referendum, a sharp drop in the number of early-career new joiners from Europe resulted in a considerable decrease in the share of EU nurses in...

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Nurse unions and patient outcomes

Dube, Arindrajit; Kaplan, Ethan; Thompson, Owen - 2014

We estimate the impact of nurse unions on health care quality using patient discharge data and the universe of hospital unionizations in California between 1996 and 2005. We find that hospitals with a successful union election outperform hospitals with a failed election in 12 of 13 nurse...

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Information provision and streamlined medical service : evidence from a mobile appointment app

Song, Changcheng; Yang, Nan; Yi, Junjian; Yuan, Ye - 2018

from a subset of patients' electronic medical records, we also find that the app directs patients to the hospital and …

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Cream skimming by health care providers and inequality in health care access : evidence from a randomized field experiment

Werbeck, Anna; Wübker, Ansgar; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2020

Using a randomized field experiment, we show that health care specialists cream-skim patients by their expected …

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Health workers' behavior, patient reporting and reputational concerns : lab-in-the-field experimental evidence from Kenya

Mbiti, Isaac M.; Serra, Danila - 2018

reporting in Kenyan health clinics. We recruit patients and health care providers from public and private health clinics to play … a series of modified Trust Games. In the game, patients can send money to providers, who are then able to reciprocate …. Patients can then file complaints if they are unhappy with the provider's level of reciprocity. We examine patient and provider …

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Re-examining supplier-induced demand in health care: comparisons among patients affiliated and not affiliated with healthcare professionals in China

Si, Yafei; Zhou, Zhongliang; Su, Min; Hu, Han; Yang, Zesen - 2020

between patients affiliated with healthcare professionals and their counterpart patients not affiliated with healthcare … professionals. Using the China Labor-force Dynamics Survey (CLDS) in 2014, we identified 806 patients affiliated with healthcare … professionals and 22,788 patients not affiliated with healthcare professionals. The matched outpatient proportion of patients not …

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Healthcare quality and dementia risk

Aravena, José M.; Chen, Xi; Levy, Becca - 2024

Low healthcare quality has been found to predict the development of several illnesses in older adults, while the evidence on dementia is still lacking. This study assesses whether and to what extent experiencing low healthcare quality can be associated with developing dementia in people...

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Medicare austerity reforms and patient out-of-pocket costs : the experience from Australian cancer patients

Naghsh Nejad, Maryam; Van Gool, Kees; Haywood, Phil; … - 2024

costs for patients in the 12 months following on cancer diagnosis and find a large variation in these costs according to the …

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