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Overseas GPs and prescription behaviour in England

Nicodemo, Catia; Orso, Cristina Elisa; Tealdi, Cristina - 2023

The UK imports many doctors from abroad, where medical training and experience might be different. This study attempts to understand how drug prescription behaviour differs in English GP practices which have larger or smaller numbers of foreign-trained GPs. Results show that in general practices...

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How do insurers price medical malpractice insurance?

Black, Bernard S.; Traczynski, Jerey; Udalova, Victoria - 2022

during the early 2000's provides evidence supporting a causal link between cap adoption and the ratio of premium to direct …

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Physicians and the production of health : returns to health care during the mortality transition

Liebert, Helge; Mäder, Beatrice - 2022

expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in … the supply of physicians reduce infant mortality and mortality from common childhood diseases. Using a semiparametric …

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On the sorting of physicians across medical occupations

Courty, Pascal (contributor); Marschke, Gerald (contributor) - 2008

possibility of differential productivity across occupations. The model combines moral hazard and matching of physicians and … occupations with pre-matching investments. In equilibrium assortative matching takes place; more able physicians join occupations …

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The value of socialized medicine : the impact of universal primary healthcare provision on birth and mortality rates in Turkey

Cesur, Resul; Güneş, Pınar Mine; Tekin, Erdal; … - 2015

This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey. The Family Medicine Program (FMP), launched in 2005,...

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Information provision and streamlined medical service : evidence from a mobile appointment app

Song, Changcheng; Yang, Nan; Yi, Junjian; Yuan, Ye - 2018

We examine the launch of a mobile outpatient appointment app in China to study the effect of information provision and a streamlined appointment process on hospital operations and the alignment of healthcare supply and demand. Using a longitudinal dataset on hospital operations and a...

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Digital waste? : unintended consequences of health information technology

Böckerman, Petri; Kortelainen, Mika; Laine, Liisa T.; … - 2019

We exploit a large-scale natural experiment - the rollout of a nationwide electronic prescribing system in Finland - to study how digitization of prescriptions affects pharmaceutical use and health outcomes. We use comprehensive administrative data from patients treated with benzodiazepines,...

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Re-examining supplier-induced demand in health care: comparisons among patients affiliated and not affiliated with healthcare professionals in China

Si, Yafei; Zhou, Zhongliang; Su, Min; Hu, Han; Yang, Zesen - 2020

Doing "more" in healthcare can be a major threat to the delivery of high-quality health care. This study used coarsened exact matching to test the hypothesis of supplier-induced demand (SID) by comparing health care utilization and expenditures between patients affiliated with healthcare...

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The impact of physician-patient gender match on healthcare quality : an experiment in China

Si, Yafei; Chen, Gang; Zhou, Zhongliang; Yip, Winnie C.; … - 2025

) in an experiment, and collected interactions between SPs and physicians in a primary care setting. We find that, compared … with female physicians treating female SPs, female physicians treating male SPs had a 23.4 pp increase in correct diagnosis …-patient communications, not the presence of more clinical information. More importantly, female physicians treating male SPs prescribed more …

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Employer quality and skilled workers' mobility : evidence from English NHS hospital doctors

Cellini, Stefano; Mello, Marco; Moscelli, Giuseppe - 2025

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