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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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The prevalence of school-based healthcare has increased markedly over the past decade. We study a modern mode of school-based healthcare, telemedicine, that offers the potential to reach places and populations with historically low access to such care. School-based telemedicine clinics (SBTCs)...
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We investigate the relationship among staff engagement, job complementarities and labour supply in the hospital sector … NHS hospitals. System-GMM estimates remove the endogeneity bias due to reverse causality, revealing nurses' elasticities …' retention of 0.16 and 0.2, respectively within the hospital and the NHS. Estimates of unconditional quantile regressions confirm …
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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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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 … hospital consultations by 9.5%, through boosting registrations by 4.8% and reducing appointment cancellations by 3.4%. The app …
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link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy …
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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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hospital-specific trends, we find that unionized hospitals also outperform hospitals without any union election in the same 12 …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 …
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Retention of skilled workers is essential for labour-intensive organisations like hospitals, where an excessive … coworkers, in affecting employee retention within the public hospital sector. We exploit a unique and rich panel dataset based … on employee-level payroll and staff survey records from the universe of English NHS hospitals, and estimate dynamic panel …
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of the hospital from a fringe institution to one essential to the practice of medicine. Despite the central role of … medicine in contemporary society, little is known about how hospitals and modern medicine contributed to this health transition …. In this paper, we explore how access to the hospital and modern medicine affects mortality. We do so by leveraging a …
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