The effect of competition on the quality of health care remains a contested issue. Most empirical estimates rely on … between hospitals. Patients were given choice of location for hospital care and provided information on the quality and … approximately 68,000 discharges per year per hospital from 160 hospitals. We find that the effect of competition is to save lives …

Public and private entities around the world are trying to induce the provision of higher-quality health care by … adopting institutional arrangements intended to promote competition among care providers. I selectively survey and supplement … the literature to show that an increase in competition—modeled either as a larger number of care providers or greater …

health care markets. We show that competition generally favours the majority group as higher quality for the majority is an …, competition can improve equity by forcing the providers to increase quality for the majority group. …In this paper we focus on the implications of consumer heterogeneity for whether competition will improve outcomes in …

We examine whether a hospital's quality is affected by the quality provided by other hospitals in the same market. We … to a sample of English hospitals in 2009–10 and a set of 16 quality measures including mortality rates, readmission …, revision and redo rates, and three patient reported indicators, to examine the relationship between the quality of hospitals …

General Practitioners (GP) have limited means to compete. As quality is hard to observe by patients, GPs have … incentives to signal quality by using instruments patients perceive as quality. …

This study assesses the impact of competition on quality and price in the English care/nursing homes market … quality and price were reduced by greater competition. Further analyses suggested that the negative quality effect worked … through the effect on price – higher competition reduces revenue which pushes down quality. …

Most studies of competition in health care focus on prices and costs, but concerns about quality play a central role in … policy debates. If demand is inelastic to quality, then competition may reduce patient welfare. This study uses a dataset of … quality when choosing hospitals. Results indicate that at the hospital level, a one-standard deviation increase in the graft …

insurers market their products to consumers based, in part, on the quality and breadth of their provider network. We then …. Variation in the quality of health care clearly can have large welfare consequences. We therefore also describe the theoretical … and empirical literature on the impact of market structure on quality of health care. The chapter then moves on to …

competition during the period July 1992-January 1998. We find that generic share and price are simultaneously determined, while … addition, we find generic competition to be particularly intense for blockbuster drugs, which experience significantly more …

simultaneously. The competition involves such elements as price, quality, convenience, technology and innovation and the effects of … the competition in the market affect the quality of care, clinical outcomes, cost of services, access as well as patient … satisfaction. The purpose of the paper is to shed some light on the impact of competition on the performance of general hospitals …