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How Spillovers from Appointment Reminders Improve Health Clinic Efficiency
Boone, Claire; Celhay, Pablo A.; Gertler, Paul J.; … - 2022
Missed clinic appointments present a significant burden to health care through disruption of care, inefficient use of staff time and wasted clinical resources. Short message service (SMS) appointment reminders show promise to improve clinics’ management through timely appointment cancellations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014090297
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Does Decreased Access to Emergency Departments Affect Patient Outcomes? Analysis of Ami Population 1996-2005
Shen, Yu-Chu - 2011
infarction. Data sources include 100% Medicare Provider Analysis and Review, AHA hospital annual surveys, Medicare hospital cost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131498
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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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The Impact of Therapeutic Procedure Innovation on Hospital Patient Longevity : Evidence from Western Australia, 2000-2007
Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2012
We investigate the effect of therapeutic procedure innovation in general on the longevity of all hospital patients, i … patient-level data indicate that therapeutic procedure innovation increased the life expectancy of WA hospital patients by … (over 400 postcodes), year of hospital admission, and number of procedures performed.. Estimates based on longitudinal DRG …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114013
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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 …
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Identifying the Health Production Function : The Case of Hospitals
Romley, John - 2013
hospital productivity, or increase with unmeasured patient severity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074921
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Capacity Constraints and the Provision of Public Services : The Case of Workers in Public Health Clinics
Harris, Matthew - 2019
Unlike in the production of most goods, changes in capacity for labor-intensive services only affect outcomes of interest insofar as service providers change the way they allocate their time in response to those capacity changes. In this paper, we examine how public sector service providers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889489
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Healthcare Exceptionalism? Performance and Allocation in the U.S. Healthcare Sector
Chandra, Amitabh - 2018
patients who have greater scope for hospital choice, suggesting a role for patient demand in allocation in the hospital sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936864
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The Effect of Soft Budget Constraints on Access and Quality in Hospital Care
Shen, Yu-Chu - 2010
financial health affect different aspects of hospital operation. In our study, we analyze this issue focusing on hospital access … account both hospital's current and past financial health as well as their expected financial outlook (i.e., whether there is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758492
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What Do Nonprofits Maximize? Nonprofit Hospital Service Provision and Market Ownership Mix
Horwitz, Jill R. - 2010
Conflicting theories of the nonprofit firm have existed for several decades yet empirical research has not resolved these debates, partly because the theories are not easily testable but also because empirical research generally considers organizations in isolation rather than in markets. Here...
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