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Physician Group Influences on Treatment Intensity and Health : Evidence from Physician Switchers

Doyle, Joseph J.; Staiger, Becky - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

same hospital to control for practice setting. Event studies show that internists who join more-intensive groups …

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The Impact of Vertical Integration on Physician Behavior and Healthcare Delivery : Evidence from Gastroenterology Practices

Saghafian, Soroush; Song, Lina; Newhouse, Joseph P.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

US healthcare is undergoing a period of substantial change, with many hospitals vertically integrating with physician practices. Such integration could improve quality by promoting care coordination, but could also worsen it by impacting care delivery. Evidence on how physicians alter their...

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Analyses in the economics of aging : [a National Bureau of Economic Research conference report]

Wise, David A. (ed.) - 2005

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Health care issues in the United States and Japan

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How Spillovers from Appointment Reminders Improve Health Clinic Efficiency

Boone, Claire E. - 2020

Missed clinic appointments present a significant burden to health care through disruption of care, inefficient use of staff time and wasted clinical resources. Short message service (SMS) appointment reminders show promise to improve clinics' management through timely appointment cancellations...

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The Quality of Health Care Providers

McClellan, Mark - 1999

available quality measures, and (2) apply this method to estimating the quality of hospital care for elderly patients with heart …

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Doing More with Less : Predicting Primary Care Provider Effectiveness

Currie, Janet M.; Zhang, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper uses data from 802,777 veterans assigned to 7,548 primary care providers (PCPs) within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) to examine variations in the efficacy of primary care providers (PCPs), their consequences for health outcomes, and their determinants. Leveraging...

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The Great Unequalizer : Initial Health Effects of COVID-19 in the United States

Alsan, Marcella; Chandra, Amitabh; Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We measure inequities from the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality and hospitalizations in the United States during the early months of the outbreak. We discuss challenges in measuring health outcomes and health inequality, some of which are specific to COVID-19 and others that complicate attribution...

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Women Left Behind : Gender Disparities in Utilization of Government Health Insurance in India

Dupas, Pascaline; Jain, Radhika - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Using administrative data on over 4 million hospital visits, we document striking gender disparities within a … government health insurance program that entitles 46 million poor individuals to free hospital care in Rajasthan, India. Females … account for only 33% of hospital visits among children and 43% among the elderly. These shares are lower for more expensive …

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The Impact of Healthcare IT on Clinical Quality, Productivity and Workers

Bronsoler, Ari; Doyle, Joseph J.; Van Reenen, John - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Adoption of health information and communication technologies ("HICT") has surged over the past two decades. We survey the medical and economic literature on HICT adoption and its impact on clinical outcomes, productivity and labor. We find that HICT improves clinical outcomes and lowers...

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