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Activity-based financing (ABF) was implemented in the Norwegian hospital sector from 1 July 1997. A fraction (30 to 50 per cent) of the block grant from the state to the county councils has been replaced by a matching grant depending upon the number and composition of hospital treatments. As a...
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The units found strongly efficient in DEA studies on efficiency can be divided into self-evaluators and active peers, depending on whether the peers are referencing any inefficient units or not. The contribution of the paper starts with subdividing the selfevaluators into interior and exterior...
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Bakgrunn. Mesteparten av den elektive aktiviteten i en sykehusavdeling foregår på dagtid gjennom ukens hverdager, selv om den akutte virksomheten foregår hele døgnet. Hvordan pasientbelastning og legeressurser fordeler seg gjennom døgnet i en sammenhengende tidsperiode i en avdeling er...
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Denne rapporten følger norske offentlige sykehus fra 1999 til 2012, -13 år med omveltinger i helsesektoren med blant annet overføring av eierskap fra fylke til staten, et stort antall sammenslåinger av sykehus til større helseforetak, innføringen av lovpålagt enhetlig ledelse, og...
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We study whether the information patients have about physician quality when they choose a physician, influences their probability of switching physicians. We also study whether a physician with unfavorable characteristics, as perceived by patients (ex post), can compensate for patient switching...
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The impact of quality on the demand facing health care providers has important implications for the industrial organization of health care markets. In this paper we study the consumers' choice of general practitioner (GP) assuming they are unable to observe the true quality of GP services. A...
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In Norway specialized health services are provided both by public hospitals and by privately practicing specialists who have a contract with the public sector. Patients’ co-payment is the same irrespective of the type of provider they visit. The ambition of equity in the allocation of medical...
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Rapporten har disse funnene: <p> Antallet kontakter med allmennlege har forandret seg lite i perioden 1999 til 2005. Gjennomsnittlig antall kontakter i løpet av de siste 12 måneder er 2,91 i 2005. • God kapasitet på kommunenivå samvarierer positivt med antall kontakter med allmennlege:...</p>
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In the Norwegian capitation system each general practitioner (GP) has a personal list of patients. The payment system is a mix of a capitation fee and fee-for-service. From a model of a GP’s decisions we derive the optimal practice profile contingent on whether a GP experiences a shortage of...
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Vi beskriver endringer i forholdet mellom de regionale helseforetakene og de private leverandørene av laboratorie- og røntgentjenester i kjølvannet av sykehusreformen. Disse endringene er delvis bestemt av endringer i reguleringsregime og delvis av anbudsprosesser og kontrakter initiert av...
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