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The urban-rural gap in health care infrastructure : does government ideology matter?

Potrafke, Niklas; Rösel, Felix - 2019

Spatial inequalities in publicly provided goods such as health care facilities have substantial socioeconomic effects. Little is known, however, as to why publicly provided goods diverge among urban and rural regions. We exploit narrow parliamentary majorities in German states between 1950 and...

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The Healer or the Druggist : Effects of Two Health Care Policies in Taiwan on Elderly Patients’ Choice between Physician and Pharmacist Services

Chang, Simon - 2012

Physicians and pharmacists in Taiwan both prescribed and dispensed drugs; many elderly people considered the two types … citizens and a separation policy (SP) that forbids physicians from dispensing and pharmacists from prescribing drugs. I find … visited pharmacists become more likely to also visit physicians after NHI was implemented. On the other hand, through legal …

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First Do No Harm : Protecting Patients Through Immunizing Health Care Workers

Najera, Rene; Reiss, Dorit Rubinstein - 2016

To protect vulnerable patients, hospitals increasingly adopt policies requiring health care workers to be vaccinated against influenza. More than twenty states have also enacted statutes or regulations on the topic. A small minority of health care workers oppose the requirement, and several have...

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Lean on Me : A Physician’s Fiduciary Duty to Disclose an Emergent Medical Risk to the Patient

Hafemeister, Thomas L.; Spinos, Selina - 2010

This analysis has two purposes. The first is to establish that physicians owe their patients a fiduciary duty. Courts … attention, both within and outside the medical profession: the concern that some physicians are failing to disclose medical … help in times of sickness and injury. This Article asserts that physicians’ fiduciary duty to patients encompasses a duty …

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When is Medical Care 'Futile'? The Institutional Competence of the Medical Profession Regarding the Provision of Life-Sustaining Medical Care

Katz, Meir - 2011

“Medical futility,” the doctrine by which hospital ethics boards have assumed the right to authorize medical providers to unilaterally withdraw or decline to provide aggressive life sustaining medical care, has swelled in popularity in recent years and has affected the lives of countless...

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How do Non-Monetary Performance Incentives for Physicians Affect the Quality of Medical Care? - A Laboratory Experiment

Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja; Krieger, Miriam - 2013

: subjects take on the role of physicians and make treatment decisions for patients, receiving feedback on the quality of their …

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Terminal Patients and the Right to Refuse Medical Treatment in Argentina

Hevia, Martin; Schnidrig, Daniela - 2017

The right to health has many dimensions. On the one hand, it entails positive duties for states to protect the health of individuals. On the other, it encompasses patient decision making regarding personal health, an idea which is closely linked to the right to autonomy and the right to free...

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Do Computerized Physician Order Entry and Bar Code Medication Administration Improve Quality of Care?

Spetz, Joanne; Phibbs, Ciaran S. - 2014

Rationale: Computerized patient records and bar code medication systems are gaining favor in the health care industry. These systems are believed to reduce patient care errors and improve the work environment for medical professionals, although there is little objective research on the effects...

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Patient Decision Aids Improve Patient Safety and Reduce Medical Liability Risk

Pope, Thaddeus Mason - 2021

Tort-based doctrines of informed consent have utterly failed to assure that patients understand the risks, benefits, and alternatives to the healthcare they receive. Fifty years of experience with the doctrine of informed consent have shown it to be an abject catastrophe. Most patients lack an...

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How do non-monetary performance incentives for physicians affect the quality of medical care? : a laboratory experiment

Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja; Krieger, Miriam - 2013

: subjects take on the role of physicians and make treatment decisions for patients, receiving feedback on the quality of their …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009741498