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Organizational Fragmentation and Care Quality in the U.S. Health Care System
Cebul, Randall - 2009
increase costs. We illustrate our argument with examples taken from the insurance and the hospital industries, and discuss …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012766288
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Algorithms and the Changing Frontier
Agwara, Hezekiah - 2014
We first summarize the dominant interpretations of the "frontier" in the United States and predecessor colonies over the past 400 years: agricultural (1610s-1880s), industrial (1890s-1930s), scientific (1940s- 1980s), and algorithmic (1990s-present). We describe the difference between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055503
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Quality Disclosure and Certification : Theory and Practice
Dranove, David - 2010
This essay reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on quality disclosure and certification. After comparing quality disclosure with other quality assurance mechanisms and describing a brief history of quality disclosure, we address three key theoretical issues: (i) Why don't sellers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148872
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Identifying Provider Prejudice in Healthcare
Chandra, Amitabh - 2010
We use simple economic insights to develop a framework for distinguishing between prejudice and statistical discrimination using observational data. We focus our inquiry on the enormous literature in healthcare where treatment disparities by race and gender are not explained by access,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137734
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Can Governments Do it Better? Merger Mania and Hospital Outcomes in the English NHS
Gaynor, Martin - 2011
this, the UK government has pursued an active policy of hospital merger. These mergers are initiated by a regulator, acting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118244
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Human Capital and Organizational Performance : Evidence from the Healthcare Sector
Bartel, Ann P. - 2011
use detailed longitudinal monthly data on nursing units in the Veterans Administration hospital system to identify how the … human capital (general, hospital-specific and unit or team-specific) of the nursing team on the unit affects patients …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119951
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Vertical Integration and Optimal Reimbursement Policy
Afendulis, Chris - 2011
payment for skilled nursing facilities (SNF PPS) in geographic areas with high versus low levels of hospital/SNF integration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120946
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Free to Choose? Reform and Demand Response in the English National Health Service
Gaynor, Martin - 2012
The impacts of choice in public services are controversial. We exploit a reform in the English National Health Service to assess the impact of relaxing constraints on patient choice. We estimate a demand model to evaluate whether increased choice increased demand elasticity faced by hospitals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097271
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Do High-Cost Hospitals Deliver Better Care? Evidence from Ambulance Referral Patterns
Doyle, Joseph J. - 2012
compare hospital performance for emergency patients: plausibly exogenous variation in ambulance-company assignment. Ambulances … data from 2002-2008, we show that ambulance company assignment importantly affects hospital choice for patients in the same … zip code. Using data for New York state from 2000-2006 that matches exact patient addresses to hospital discharge records …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108306
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Evaluating Measures of Hospital Quality
Doyle, Joseph J. - 2017
methodology for estimating the causal relationship between hospital quality measures and patient outcomes. To compare similar …-scoring hospital results in better patient outcomes. We estimate that a two-standard deviation improvement in a composite quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963161