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Patients Whose GP Knows Complementary Medicine Tend to Have Lower Costs and Live Longer
Kooreman, Peter - 2011
acupuncture (25), homeopathy (28) and anthroposophic medicine (26). Patients whose GP has additional CAM training have 0 to 30 …
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The Impact of Air Pollution on Attributable Risks and Economic Costs of Hospitalization for Mental Disorders
Wu, Ziting - 2020
This study aims to fill the gap in our understanding about exposure to particulate matters with diameter less than 2.5 μm (PM2.5) and attributable risks and economic costs of mental disorders (MDs). We identify the relationship between PM2.5 and risk of hospital admissions (HAs) for MDs in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840459
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Urgent Care Centers, Hospital Performance and Population Health
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Nunes, Letícia; Rocha, Rudi - 2021
Hospitals are under increasing pressure as they bear a growing burden of chronic disease while also dealing with emergency cases that do not all require hospital care. Many countries have responded by introducing alternative facilities that provide 24/7 care for basic and medium-complexity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013252373
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Nurse Unions and Patient Outcomes
Dube, Arindrajit - 2014
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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Health Workers' Behavior, Patient Reporting and Reputational Concerns : Lab-in-The-Field Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Mbiti, Isaac - 2018
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012925519
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Patient Versus Provider Incentives in Long-Term Care
Hackmann, Martin B.; Pohl, Vincent; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2023
patients. Thus, targeting provider incentives through alternative payment models, such as episode-based reimbursement, is more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356350
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Foreign Physicians : Discriminatory Patient Preferences and Doctor Availability
Walker, Brigham; Wisniewski, Janna; Tinkler, Sarah; … - 2023
availability. In the patient preferences field experiment, we find that patients strongly prefer doctors educated in the United …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014260945
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Spillover Effects of Drug Safety Warnings on Health Behavior
Daysal, N. Meltem - 2012
We examine the impact of new medical information on drug safety on preventive health behavior. We exploit the release of the findings of the Women's Health Initiative Study (WHIS) – the largest randomized controlled trial of women's health – which demonstrated in 2002 that long-term Hormone...
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Regulation of Pharmaceutical Prices : Evidence from a Reference Price Reform in Denmark
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2013
Reference prices constitute a main determinant of patient health care reimbursement in many countries. We study the effects of a change from an "external" (based on a basket of prices in other countries) to an "internal" (based on comparable domestic products) reference price system.We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085071
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The Miracle Drugs : Hormone Replacement Therapy and Labor Market Behavior of Middle-Aged Women
Daysal, N. Meltem - 2014
In an aging society, determining which factors contribute to the employment of older individuals is increasingly important. We examine the impact of medical innovations on the employment of middle-aged women focusing on the specific case of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), a common treatment...
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