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Getting Doctors into the Bush : General Practitioners' Preferences for Rural Location

Scott, Anthony - 2012

part of the Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life (MABEL) longitudinal survey of doctors. 3,727 GPs …

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Why junior doctors don't want to become general practitioners : a discrete choice experiment from the MABEL longitudinal study of doctors

Sivey, Peter; Scott, Anthony; Witt, Julia; Joyce, Catherine - 2010

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Getting doctors into the bush : general practioners' preference for rural location

Scott, Anthony (contributor) - 2012

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GPs' preferences: what price fee-for-service?

Zweifel, Peter; Rischatsch, Maurus; Brändle, Angelika - 2009

In mixed health care systems a crucial condition for the success of Managed Care (MC) plans is to win over a su±cient number of general practitioners (GPs) acting as gatekeepers. This contribution reports on GPs' willingness-to-accept (WTA) or compensation asked, respectively, for changing from...

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How Do Primary Care Physicians Influence Healthcare? Evidence on Practice Styles and Switching Costs from Medicare

Kwok, Jennifer - 2022

Primary care physicians have a central, coordination role in medicine, yet little is known about their impacts on … healthcare utilization. I study the short-run and long-run effects of switching to different primary care physicians on … utilization within healthcare markets. To estimate the short-run effects of changing primary care physicians on utilization, I …

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Cut off from new competition : threat of entry and quality of primary care

Brüll, Eduard; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Schlenker, Oliver - 2024

We study how the threat of entry affects service quantity and quality of general practitioners (GPs). We leverage Germany's needs-based primary care planning system, in which the likelihood of new GPs reduces by 20 percentage points when primary care coverage exceeds a cut-off. We compile novel...

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Cut off from new competition : threat of entry and quality of primary care

Brüll, Eduard; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Schlenker, Oliver - 2024

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Pay for performance and contractual choice : the case of general practitioners in England

Fichera, Eleonora; Pezzino, Mario - In: Health economics review 7 (2017) 6, pp. 1-14

The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) is a Pay-for-Performance scheme introduced in England in 2004 to reward primary care providers. This incentive scheme provides financial incentives that reward the overall performance of a practice, not individual effort. Consequently, an important...

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Dealing with minor illnesses : the link between primary care characteristics and First Aid Clinics' attendances

Donatini, Andrea; Fiorentini, Gianluca; Lippi Bruni, Matteo - 2014

The reformulation of existing boundaries between primary and secondary care, in order to shift selected services traditionally provided by Emergency Departments to community-based alternatives has determined a variety of organisational solutions aimed at reducing the ED overcrowding. One...

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Closing the gap : the impact of the medicaid primary care rate increase on access and health

Alexander, Diane; Schnell, Molly - 2017

The difficulties that Medicaid beneficiaries face accessing medical care are often attributed to the program's low reimbursement rates relative to other payers. There is little evidence, however, as to the actual effects of Medicaid doctor payment rates on access and health outcomes for...

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