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Capacity Constraints and the Provision of Public Services : The Case of Workers in Public Health Clinics

Harris, Matthew C. - 2019

Unlike in the production of most goods, changes in capacity for labor-intensive services only affect outcomes of interest insofar as service providers change the way they allocate their time in response to those capacity changes. In this paper, we examine how public sector service providers...

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Vertical Integration and Optimal Reimbursement Policy

Afendulis, Christopher - 2011

payment for skilled nursing facilities (SNF PPS) in geographic areas with high versus low levels of hospital/SNF integration …

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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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Information Technology and Patient Health : Analyzing Outcomes, Populations, and Mechanisms

Freedman, Seth - 2015

We study the effect of hospital adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) on health outcomes, particularly patient …

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The Trillion Dollar Conundrum : Complementarities and Health Information Technology

Dranove, David - 2012

We examine the relationship between the adoption of EMR and hospital operating costs. We first identify a puzzle that …

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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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