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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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Geographic variation in inpatient care utilization, outcomes and costs for dementia patients in China
Lin, Zhuoer; Ba, Fang; Allore, Heather; Liu, Gordon G.; … - 2022
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013449379
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369772
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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
from a subset of patients' electronic medical records, we also find that the app directs patients to the hospital 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 difference-in-differences model, we document that the app increases completed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011914853
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How do low-income enrollees in the Affordable Care Act marketplaces respond to cost-sharing?
Lavetti, Kurt; DeLeire, Thomas C.; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2019
link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130268
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Foreign nurses and hospital quality : evidence from Brexit
Castro-Pires, Henrique; Mello, Marco; Moscelli, Giuseppe - 2023
provision of hospital care. After the referendum, a sharp drop in the number of early-career new joiners from Europe resulted in … strategy, we find that emergency readmission rates increased, and more so in hospital organizations more exposed to the missing …
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Health workers' behavior, patient reporting and reputational concerns : lab-in-the-field experimental evidence from Kenya
Mbiti, Isaac; Serra, Danila - 2018
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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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
between patients affiliated with healthcare professionals and their counterpart patients not affiliated with healthcare … professionals. Using the China Labor-force Dynamics Survey (CLDS) in 2014, we identified 806 patients affiliated with healthcare … professionals and 22,788 patients not affiliated with healthcare professionals. The matched outpatient proportion of patients not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012304913
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Reference-dependent preferences and loss aversion : a discrete choice experiment in the health-care sector
Neumann, Einat (contributor); Neuman, Shoshana (contributor) - 2007
A Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) in the health-care sector is used to test the loss aversion theory that is derived from reference-dependent preferences: The absolute subjective value of a deviation from a reference point is generally greater when the deviation represents a loss than when the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652664
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Quality and accountability of Large Language Models (LLMs) in healthcare in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) : a simulated patient study using ChatGPT
Si, Yafei; Chen, Xi; Gong, Sen - 2024
Using simulated patients to mimic nine established non-communicable and infectious diseases over 27 trials, we assess …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015045045