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Benefit Efficient Statistical Distributions on Patient Lists

Uboe, Jan - 2007

In this paper we consider statistical distributions of different types of patients on the patient lists of doctors. In our framework different types of patients have different preferences regarding their preferred choice of doctor. Assuming that the system is benefit efficient in the sense that...

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Revelation of Preferences in Patient List Data

Uboe, Jan - 2014

In this paper we will show how the patient list model in Uboslash;e amp; Lillestoslash;l (2007) can be used to infer strength of preferences from patient list data. We prove that we can construct unique sets of preferences that replicates patient list data, and we also show how to approach cases...

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Are doctors better health ministers?

Pilny, Adam; Rösel, Felix - 2020

physicians, but with little impact on hospital outputs. As a result, total factor productivity (TFP) growth in hospital care …

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Are doctors better health ministers?

Pilny, Adam; Rösel, Felix - 2020

physicians, but with little impact on hospital outputs. As a result, total factor productivity (TFP) growth in hospital care …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012217432

Factors that influence the selection and utilization of children's medical insurance

Zhang, ShiShu; Soukup, Gregory J. - In: Cogent business & management 2 (2015), pp. 1-13

The researchers analyzed how different regions in the USA, family structure, ethnicity, and family income levels influenced the selection and utilization of medical care programs and services by American children. To prevent any possible bias in the analysis and to produce reliable results, an...

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Mandatory disclosure : theory and evidence from industry-physician relationships

Chen, Daniel L.; Levonyan, Vardges; Reinhart, S. Eric; … - 2016

pharmaceutical company payments to 316,622 physicians across the U.S. from 2009-2011. States were classified as having strong, weak … payments in strong disclosure states was physicians' reduced willingness to accept payments rather than the imposition of … interpretation of physicians' reduced willingness to accept payments. Significant disclosure aversion reducing con- flicts of …

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Are we overdiagnosing mental illnesses? : evidence from randomly assigned doctors

Bos, Marieke; Hertzberg, Andrew; Liberman, Andres - 2021 - This draft: August 2021

Almost two in 10 adults in the U.S. and Europe are, at any moment in time, diagnosed with a mental illness. This paper asks whether mental illness is over- (or under-) diagnosed, by looking at its causal effect on individuals at the margin of diagnosis. We follow all Swedish men born between...

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Health Service Gatekeepers

Malcomson, James M. - 2004

Incentive contracts for gatekeepers who control patient access to specialist medical services provide too weak incentives to investigate cost further when expected cost of treatment is greater than benefit. Making gatekeepers residual claimants with a fixed fee from which treatment costs must be...

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Pox Americana? Vaccinating More Emergency Doctors for Smallpox - A Law and Economics Approach to Work Conditions

LeRoy, Michael H. - 2007

Experts and government agencies believe that a smallpox attack against the U.S. is possible. Dark Winter - a simulation run in June 2001 by national security groups - concluded that a single smallpox attack would result in a viral holocaust. This is because Americans have no immunity to this...

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A taste of their own medicine: guideline adherence and access to expertise

Finkelstein, Amy; Persson, Petra; Polyakova, Maria; … - 2021

We use population administrative data from Sweden to study adherence to 63 medication-related guidelines. We compare the adherence of patients without personal access to medical expertise to the adherence of those with access, namely doctors and their close relatives. We estimate that, among...

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