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Information integration, coordination failures, and quality of prescribing
Böckerman, Petri; Laine, Liisa T.; Nurminen, Mikko; … - 2020
Poor information flows hamper coordination, potentially leading to suboptimal decisions in health care. We examine the effects of a nationwide policy of information integration on the quality of prescribing. We use the rollout of an electronic prescribing system in Finland and prescription-level...
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The "gravity" of quality : research quality and universities' attractiveness in Italy
Bratti, Massimiliano; Verzillo, Stefano - 2017
This paper investigates whether or not research quality is significantly associated with a university's ability to attract students from other provinces in Italy. First university enrolments of students over the period 2003-2011 are regressed on several universities' research quality indicators...
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Do hospitals respond to increasing prices by supplying fewer services?
Salm, Martin; Wübker, Ansgar - 2015
increasing prices. We test this prediction based on a reform of hospital financing in Germany. Uniquely, this reform changed the …
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Nurse unions and patient outcomes
Dube, Arindrajit; Kaplan, Ethan; Thompson, Owen - 2014
We estimate the impact of nurse unions on health care quality using patient discharge data and the universe of hospital … hospital-specific trends, we find that unionized hospitals also outperform hospitals without any union election in the same 12 …
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Evaluating the effect of ownership status on hospital quality : the key role of innovative procedures
Gobillon, Laurent; Milcent, Carine - 2012
role in explaining the effect of ownership status on hospital quality. When age, sex, diagnoses and co-morbidities are held … hospitals. -- hospital performance ; innovative procedures ; stratified duration model ; hospital quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009680311
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Competition and hospital quality : evidence from a French natural experiment
Gobillon, Laurent; Milcent, Carine - 2017
We evaluate the effect of a pro-competition reform gradually introduced in France over the 2004-2008 period on hospital … are all under a DRG-based payment system after the reform. For each hospital status, we assess the benefits of local … hospital level to take into account hospital unobserved heterogeneity and censorship in the duration of stays in a flexible way …
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Mergers and birth outcomes : evidence from maternity ward closures
Avdic, Daniel; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - 2018
Evidence suggests that hospital mergers can reduce costs but less is known about their effects on patient outcomes. We …
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Geographic variation in inpatient care utilization, outcomes and costs for dementia patients in China
Lin, Zhuoer; Ba, Fang; Allore, Heather; Liu, Gordon G.; … - 2022
Dementia leads public health issue worldwide. China has the largest population of adults living with dementia in the world, imposing increasing burdens on the public health and healthcare systems. Despite improved access to health services, inadequate and uneven dementia management remains...
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Non-monetary interventions, workforce retention and hospital quality : evidence from the English NHS
Moscelli, Giuseppe; Sayli, Melisa; Blanden, Jo; Mello, Marco - 2023
the programme has decreased the nurse turnover rate by 4.49%, decreased exits from the public hospital sector by 5 ….38%, and reduced mortality within 30 days from hospital admission by 3.45%, preventing 11,400 deaths. Our results are …
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Healthcare quality and dementia risk
Aravena, José M.; Chen, Xi; Levy, Becca R. - 2024
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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