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decreased exits from the public hospital sector. Our results indicate that a light-touch intervention can shift management … behavior and improve hospital workforce turnover. These findings are important in sectors affected by labor supply shortages …
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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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Using the 1997-1998 New South Wales public-hospitals comparison data, we investigate the hospital-level inefficiency by … errors of the outputs of the hospital. The main findings are: First, inefficiency accounts for 9.3% of total hospital costs …
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The COVID–19 pandemic has challenged the capacity of healthcare systems around the world and can potentially compromise healthcare utilization and health outcomes among non-COVID–19 patients. Using monthly panel data of nationally representative middle-aged and older Singaporeans, we...
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In England as elsewhere, policy makers are trying to reduce the pressure on costs due to rising hospital admissions by … encouraging GPs to refer fewer patients to hospital specialists. This could have an impact on elective treatment levels … data from Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) in England we estimate dynamic fixed effects panel data models for emergency …
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coworkers, in affecting employee retention within the public hospital sector. We exploit a unique and rich panel dataset based …
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-term physical health conditions (LTCs) and this co-occurrence is associated with higher hospital utilisation. Psychological … Therapies (IAPT) programme in England on hospital utilisation 12-months after the end of IAPT treatment. We examined three types … of hospital utilisation: Inpatient treatment, Outpatient treatment and Emergency room attendance. We examined individuals …
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We investigate the relationship among staff engagement, job complementarities and labour supply in the hospital sector …' retention of 0.16 and 0.2, respectively within the hospital and the NHS. Estimates of unconditional quantile regressions confirm …
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We estimate intergenerational health persistence in the United Kingdom using Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALY), a broad measure of health derived from the SF-12 Survey. We estimate that both the rank-rank slope and the intergenerational health association (IHA) are 0.21. We use components of...
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the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child … but the disparities are notably greater in the United States and the United Kingdom than in Australia, and particularly in … with SES across countries. While the smallest SES gaps are found in Australia and Canada for both types of outcome …
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