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We estimate the impact of nurse unions on health care quality using patient discharge data and the universe of hospital unionizations in California between 1996 and 2005. We find that hospitals with a successful union election outperform hospitals with a failed election in 12 of 13 nurse...
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utilization, outcomes, and costs for patients hospitalized for dementia in China. Regional patterns demonstrate gaps in equity and … efficiency of dementia care and management for dementia patients. Health policy and practices should consider geographic …
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availability. In the patient preferences field experiment, we find that patients strongly prefer doctors educated in the United …
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Low healthcare quality has been found to predict the development of several illnesses in older adults, while the evidence on dementia is still lacking. This study assesses whether and to what extent experiencing low healthcare quality can be associated with developing dementia in people...
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primary care doctor consultations. We use novel data from Sweden and an effectively random assignment of patients to nurses …, who differ in their propensity to direct patients to online versus inperson consultations. Our findings reveal that online …'s advantages for different patients and how to improve hybrid organizations' cost effectiveness. …
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reporting in Kenyan health clinics. We recruit patients and health care providers from public and private health clinics to play … a series of modified Trust Games. In the game, patients can send money to providers, who are then able to reciprocate …. Patients can then file complaints if they are unhappy with the provider's level of reciprocity. We examine patient and provider …
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costs for patients in the 12 months following on cancer diagnosis and find a large variation in these costs according to the …
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efficacy to its traditional intravenous alternative and was preferred by patients for its at-home administration. However, from … national administrative data on services provided, and chemotherapy medications prescribed, by providers to 1850 patients in … New South Wales, Australia. Our estimates indicate that the subsidies expanded access to oral chemotherapy for newly …
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The "healthy immigrant effect" refers to the well-documented fact that immigrants are healthier than natives upon arrival, but their health level converges to that of natives over time. Unfortunately, little is known about whether environmental, institutional, or selective return migration...
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the agency model that health care professionals understand what their patients want. Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs …) are conducted simultaneously within samples of patients (women who gave birth) and care-givers (doctors and nurses), to … elicit and contrast patients' authentic preferences (for five maternity ward attributes) with what care-givers believe them …
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