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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

discover diferential treatment styles driven by physicians' perceived liability risk among patients with a diferent critical … attitude drives physicians' perceived liability risk and consequent defensive behaviour among obstetricians/gynaecologists and …Objective By manipulating patients' critical attitude in a video experiment, we examined whether physicians are more …

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The net effects of medical malpractice tort reform on health insurance losses : the Texas experience

Born, Patricia; Karl, J. Bradley; Viscusi, W. Kip - In: Health economics review 7 (2017) 42, pp. 1-16

In this paper, we examine the influence of medical malpractice tort reform on the level of private health insurance company losses incurred. We employ a natural experiment framework centered on a series of tort reform measures enacted in Texas in 2003 that drastically altered the medical...

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Balance billing: the patients’ perspective

Kifmann, Mathias; Scheuer, Florian - In: Health economics review 1 (2011) 14, pp. 1-14

We study the effects of "balance billing", i.e., allowing physicians to charge a fee from patients in addition to the …

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The effect of a mystery shopper scheme on prescribing behavior in primary care: results from a field experiment

Cheo, Roland Kim San; Ge, Ge; Godager, Geir; Liu, Rugang; … - In: Health economics review 10 (2020) 33, pp. 1-19

whether informing physicians of a forthcoming mystery shopper audit influences their prescribing behavior. The intervention …

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Pay for performance and contractual choice : the case of general practitioners in England

Fichera, Eleonora; Pezzino, Mario - In: Health economics review 7 (2017) 6, pp. 1-14

The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) is a Pay-for-Performance scheme introduced in England in 2004 to reward primary care providers. This incentive scheme provides financial incentives that reward the overall performance of a practice, not individual effort. Consequently, an important...

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The impact of additive or substitutive clinical study design on the negotiated reimbursement for oncology pharmaceuticals after early benefit assessment in Germany

Dintsios, C. M.; Beinhauer, I. - In: Health economics review 10 (2020) 7, pp. 1-25

Background: We analysed the impact of clinical study design for oncological pharmaceuticals on the subsequent price … Health Insurance Funds. The analysis was conducted for all oncology pharmaceuticals that underwent the early benefit …. Further analyses should be performed when more oncology pharmaceuticals have passed the early benefit assessment. …

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Implementing personalized medicine with asymmetric information on prevalence rates

Antoñanzas Villar, Fernando; Juárez-Castelló, Carmelo A. - In: Health economics review 6 (2016) 35, pp. 1-8

Although personalized medicine is becoming the new paradigm to manage some diseases, the economics of personalized medicine have only focused on assessing the efficiency of specific treatments, lacking a theoretical framework analyzing the interactions between pharmaceutical firms and healthcare...

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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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Quantifying the broader economic consequences of quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in Germany applying a government perspective framework

Kotsopoulos, Nikolaos; Connolly, Mark P.; Remy, Vanessa - In: Health economics review 5 (2015) 23, pp. 1-11

HPV infections can cause substantial burden in females and males as it is associated with several genital cancers, in addition to genital warts. Traditional economic evaluations often focus on quantifying cost-effectiveness, however, it is increasingly recognized that vaccinations may generate...

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Who gets a mammogram amongst European women aged 50-69 years?

Wuebker, Ansgar - In: Health economics review 2 (2012) 6, pp. 1-13

On the basis of the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement (SHARE), we analyse the determinants of who engages in mammography screening focusing on European women aged 50-69 years. A special emphasis is put on the measurement error of subjective life expectancy and on the measurement and...

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