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Comparison of Two Public Sector Tertiary Care Hospitals’ Management in Reducing Direct Medical Cost Burden on Breast Carcinoma Patients in Lahore, Pakistan

Khaliq, Imran Hameed - 2018

hospital (median US$1153.93/Rs. 118,589) was significantly higher than Mayo hospital (median US$427.93/Rs. 43,978), p<0.001; r … hospital's patients as compared to Jinnah hospital.Conclusion: This study indicates that OOP direct medical cost burden was … found considerably less in Mayo hospital as compared to Jinnah hospital. The OOP expenditures on chemotherapy were …

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Non-urgent Visits and Emergency Department Congestion : Patients' Choice and Incentive Mechanisms

Sharma, Shrutivandana; Xu, Ying; Gupta, Manu Kumar; … - 2019

A major reason behind crowding in emergency departments (ED) is non-urgent patients' visits to ED. In this paper we investigate how non-urgent ED visits are influenced by patients' imperfect perception of their urgency and their self-interested choice, and we explore interventions that can...

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Chapter Nine. Competition in Health Care Markets

Gaynor, Martin; Town, Robert J. - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 2, (pp. 499-637). 2011

review the large empirical literature on the strategic determination of hospital prices through the lens of this model …

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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 …

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Does patient behaviour drive physicians to practice defensive medicine? : evidence from a video experiment

Daniels, Lotte; Marneffe, Wim - In: Health economics review 13 (2023) 1, pp. 1-13

Objective By manipulating patients' critical attitude in a video experiment, we examined whether physicians are more … neutral questions and expressions). We asked the physicians about the care they would administer in the presented cases and … discover diferential treatment styles driven by physicians' perceived liability risk among patients with a diferent critical …

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Strategic pricing and competitive procurement in the physician services market

Arie, Guy; Bergman, Alon; Wedig, Gerard J. - 2017

market. We depart from the standard healthcare service pricing model and allow physicians to (partially) adjust patient … quantities supports the hypothesis that physicians respond to insurer price differences: A 10% increase in private prices …

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The value of socialized medicine : the impact of universal primary healthcare provision on birth and mortality rates in Turkey

Cesur, Resul; Güneş, Pınar Mine; Tekin, Erdal; … - 2015

This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey. The Family Medicine Program (FMP), launched in 2005,...

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Small-Area Variation in Health Care Affecting the Choice of Cesarean Delivery : The Case of a Colombian Health Insurer

Vecino-Ortiz, Andrés Ignacio; Bardey, David; Castaño, … - 2009

sections. Geographic area only explains 1/3 of the variance attributable to the hospital. Furthermore, some variables from both …

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Healthcare Spending : The Role of Healthcare Institutions from an International Perspective

Titeca, Hannes - 2016

Healthcare systems differ greatly across the world, however, it appears that the extent of public insurance (publicly/government funded healthcare) is the only institutional characteristic that plays a significant role in accounting for the large disparities in total healthcare spending. Other...

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Virtual Health in a Post–COVID World : Optimizing Regulation, Reimbursement, and Regularity

Graboyes, Robert F.; Bryan, Darcy - 2022

Virtual health is the sum of telehealth (patient–provider communication at a distance) and autonomous health (electronic devices communicating with providers and patients at a distance). The COVID-19 pandemic and its attendant social distancing led to a sharp increase in the use of virtual...

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