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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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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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world, imposing increasing burdens on the public health and healthcare systems. Despite improved access to health services …, inadequate and uneven dementia management remains common. We document the provincial-level geographic patterns in healthcare … utilization, outcomes, and costs for patients hospitalized for dementia in China. Regional patterns demonstrate gaps in equity and …
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availability. In the patient preferences field experiment, we find that patients strongly prefer doctors educated in the United … substantial underutilization of FBPs relative to US-born physicians and suggest that a sizable share of the US healthcare provider …
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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 … healthcare quality was assessed at baseline through healthcare discrimination and dissatisfaction with healthcare services. The …
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This paper examines the effect of a nationwide healthcare reform implemented in Turkey on women's fertility decisions …. The Family Medicine Program (FMP), introduced in 2005, provided a wide-range of primary healthcare services, free of …
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shifted to private insurance, Medicare, and patients, while SUD treatment financing shifted entirely to patients. We …We study the effects of losing insurance on behavioral health - mental health and substance use disorder (SUD …) - community hospitalizations. We leverage variation in public insurance eligibility offered by a large-scale Medicaid …
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The ACA requires insurers to provide cost-sharing reductions (CSRs) to low-income consumers on the marketplaces. We link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy-driven differences in the value of CSRs that are solely...
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a streamlined appointment process on hospital operations and the alignment of healthcare supply and demand. Using a … from a subset of patients' electronic medical records, we also find that the app directs patients to the hospital and …
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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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