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Forecasting emergency department arrivals using INGARCH models
Reboredo, Juan Carlos; Barba-Queiruga, Jose Ramon; … - In: Health economics review 13 (2023) 1, pp. 1-12
Background Forecasting patient arrivals to hospital emergency departments is critical to dealing with surges and to … efcient planning, management and functioning of hospital emerency departments. Objective We explore whether past mean values …
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Telemedical emergency services : central or decentral coordination?
Fleßa, Steffen; Suess, Rebekka; Kuntosch, Julia; … - In: Health economics review 11 (2021) 1/7, pp. 1-12
Teleemergency doctors support ambulance cars at the emergency site by means of telemedicine. Currently, each district has its own teleemergency doctor office (decentralized solution). This paper analyses the advantages and disadvantages of a centralized solution where several teleemergency...
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Mind the information gap : fertility rate and use of cesarean delivery and tocolytic hospitalizations in Taiwan
Ma, Ke-zong M.; Norton, Edward C.; Lee, Shoou-yih D. - In: Health economics review 1 (2011) 20, pp. 1-15
physicians to recoup their income by substituting a more expensive treatment for a less expensive treatment. This study takes …
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Worldwide assessment of healthcare personnel dealing with lymphoedema
Schulze, Henrike; Nacke, Marisa; Gutenbrunner, Christoph; … - In: Health economics review 8 (2018) 10, pp. 1-11
Background: Lymphoedema is a pandemic with about 250 million people suffering from this condition worldwide. Lymphatic diseases have considerable public health significance, but yet few professionals are specialised in their management causing a substantial burden on health resources. Aims and...
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Robotic-assisted surgery for prostatectomy : does the diffusion of robotic systems contribute to treatment centralization and influence patients’ hospital choice?
Kuklinski, David; Vogel, Justus; Henschke, Cornelia; … - In: Health economics review 13 (2023) 1, pp. 1-16
centralization. Secondly, we analyze if a hospital's use of an RAS system infuenced patients' hospital choice. Methods To analyze RPE … treatment centralization, we use (bi-) annual hospital data from 2006 to 2018 for all German hospitals in a panel-data fxed … efect model. For investigating RAS systems' infuence on patients' hospital choice, we use patient level data of 4614 RPE …
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Does patient behaviour drive physicians to practice defensive medicine? : evidence from a video experiment
Daniels, Lotte; Marneffe, Wim - In: Health economics review 13 (2023) 1, pp. 1-13
Objective By manipulating patients' critical attitude in a video experiment, we examined whether physicians are more … neutral questions and expressions). We asked the physicians about the care they would administer in the presented cases and … discover diferential treatment styles driven by physicians' perceived liability risk among patients with a diferent critical …
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Does overcrowding and health insurance type impact patient outcomes in emergency departments?
Araujo, Pedro de; Khraiche, Maroula; Tukan, Andrea - In: Health economics review 3 (2013) 25, pp. 1-7
We examine the impact of Emergency Department (ED) overcrowding on wait times and patient outcomes using a unique cross section of about 32,000 patients for an ED located in the Southwestern United States. We construct a measure of a patient’s outcome and estimate the extent to which it is...
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Organizational boundaries of medical practice : the case of physician ownership of ancillary services
Schneider, John E.; Ohsfeldt, Robert L.; Scheibling, Cara M. - In: Health economics review 2 (2012) 7, pp. 1-8
IOASs allow physicians to supervise the quality and coordination of care. Critics have argued that IOASs create financial … incentives for physicians to increase ancillary service volume. In this paper we develop a conceptual framework to evaluate the …
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Economic impact of homeopathic practice in general medicine in France
Colas, Aurélie; Danno, Karine; Tabar, Cynthia; Ehreth, … - In: Health economics review 5 (2015) 18, pp. 1-9
Health authorities are constantly searching for new ways to stabilise health expenditures. To explore this issue, we compared the costs generated by different types of medical practice in French general medicine: i.e. conventional (CM-GP), homeopathic (Ho-GP), or mixed (Mx-GP). Data from a...
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Efficiency of Ontario primary care physicians across payment models : a stochastic frontier analysis
Laberge, Maude; Wodchis, Walter P.; Barnsley, Jan; … - In: Health economics review 6 (2016) 22, pp. 1-10
-selected physicians and linked to administrative databases to capture the provision of services to the patients served for the 12 month … distinct patients seen and the number of visits. Results: Because of missing data, only 165 physicians were included in the …
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