whereby Dallas school teachers paid $6 a year to the University Hospital and were extended hospital care without further … of hospital services. Our objective has been to consider the questions of how and to what extent people are likely to … react to an increase in the availability of prepaid hospital services. Implications of such findings for the social costs of …

Many countries have reformed hospital reimbursement policies to provide stronger incentives for quality and cost …

of hospital. These studies use either objective quality indicators based on quantitative figures, or if subjective … reputation scores are used, scores based on the opinion of hospital market insiders. We contribute to the current debate by using … a subjective reputation score resorting to patient perceptions and examine its impact on the choice of hospital of …

a trade-off between efficiency and quality in the delivery of US hospital care …

of hospital. These studies use either objective quality indicators based on quantitative figures, or if subjective … reputation scores are used, scores based on the opinion of hospital market insiders. We contribute to the current debate by using … a subjective reputation score resorting to patient perceptions and examine its impact on the choice of hospital of …