random variation in physicians’ and patients’ financial incentives. For a diagnosis for which surgical treatment is somewhat … discretionary, fully informing patients, equivalently eliminating physicians’ financial incentives, reduces surgery rates by almost …

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

a streamlined appointment process on hospital operations and the alignment of healthcare supply and demand. Using a … longitudinal dataset on hospital operations and a difference-in-differences model, we document that the app increases completed … hospital consultations by 9.5%, through boosting registrations by 4.8% and reducing appointment cancellations by 3.4%. The app …

in hospital treatment and heterogeneity in the physicians' adherence to hospital choices. Our results suggest that …. Patients with prior hospital visits have a significantly lower probability of receiving a generic drug in the outpatient sector … hospital decisions create spillover costs in healthcare systems with separate funding for inpatient and outpatient care. …

facilities offer an open-access service for patients not requiring hospital treatments, and may be staffed by nurses and … located alongside the teaching hospital's ED. We examine the link between the utilisation rates of the FaC and primary care …

large, urban, academic hospital ED. Methods: This was a retrospective, cross-sectional study of all patients seen during … 2001 (N = 80,209) at an urban academic hospital ED. Data were obtained from hospital clinical and financial records ….8), died (OR, 3.8; 95% CI = 1.5 to 9.0), hospital intensive care unit/operating room admission (OR, 1.9; 95% CI = 1.6 to 2 …

physicians, but with little impact on hospital outputs. As a result, total factor productivity (TFP) growth in hospital care … power to determine hospital capacities and infrastructure. Our results show that physician-trained health ministers increase … hospital capacities, capital, and funding by the statutory health insurance (SHI). This prompts hospitals to hire more …

physicians, but with little impact on hospital outputs. As a result, total factor productivity (TFP) growth in hospital care … power to determine hospital capacities and infrastructure. Our results show that physiciantrained health ministers increase … hospital capacities, capital, and funding by the statutory health insurance (SHI). This prompts hospitals to hire more …

A number of False Claims Act lawsuits have alleged that managers at for-profithospitals pressured physicians, using … feedback and manipulation of defaults, to admit patientsunnecessarily from the emergency department. Using 100% hospital … cross-sectionalestimates are consistent with allegations that administrators influenced physicians’ admissiondecisions …