present novel evidence on the impact of physician-patient gender match on healthcare quality using standardized patients (SPs …

healthcare quality using the standardized patients (SPs) method in an experiment. The experiment collected interactions between … standardized patients and physicians in a primary care setting in China during 2017-2018. We find that, compared with female …

the non-random character of patients' choices of where to receive care. To address this problem, I construct an empirical … model of health outcomes for dialysis patients that accounts for the endogenous selection of which facility patients choose … data from 2004-2008 for all hemodialysis patients in Atlanta, Georgia. Decompositions of the recovered facility quality …

are faced with a heterogeneous patient population, in which patients systematically vary with regard to both, their … benefits as long as patients are able to respond to the quality provided. For those patients, who are not able to choose a … contrast to our theoretical prediction implying no change in benefits for passive patients. Deviations from patient …

, combining rich population-wide register data with random assignment of patients to general practitioners (GPs). We show that … there is substantial variation in the quality of physicians, as measured by patients’ post-assignment mortality, in the … point decline in a patient’s two-year mortality risk. While we find evidence of observable doctor characteristics and …

, combining rich population-wide register data with random assignment of patients to general practitioners (GPs). We show that … there is substantial variation in the quality of physicians, as measured by patients’ post-assignment mortality, in the … point decline in a patient’s two-year mortality risk. While we find evidence of observable doctor characteristics and …

-reduction strategies in high cost areas affect the entire value chain. Our proxy for the follow-up costs of a patient’s case – and …-term quality offered our hospital strategic complements, as specialization increased quality by reducing the probability of …

Using simulated patients to mimic nine established non-communicable and infectious diseases over 27 trials, we assess …

the state-of-the-art of patient safety measurement using the Hospital Survey of Patient Safety Culture (HSPSC) and is the … perceptions of safe staffing and workpace levels and response to errors among hospital workers, areas that could be targeted for …