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Appointment scheduling in tandem-type service systems
Kuiper, Alex; Mandjes, Michel - In: Omega : the international journal of management science 57 (2015), pp. 145-156
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416178
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The Quality of Health Care Providers
McClellan, Mark - 1999
available quality measures, and (2) apply this method to estimating the quality of hospital care for elderly patients with heart …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471457
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Antitrust and Competition in Health Care Markets
Gaynor, Martin - 1999
applied to health care: hospital mergers, monopsony, and foreclosure. In each of these sections we review the relevant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471682
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Tele-medicine question response service : analysis of benefits and costs
Cho, David; Stauffer, Jon M. - In: Omega : the international journal of management science 111 (2022), pp. 1-14
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013271733
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Capacity Constraints and the Provision of Public Services : The Case of Workers in Public Health Clinics
Harris, Matthew C. - 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/10012479657
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Hospital Allocation and Racial Disparities in Health Care
Chandra, Amitabh - 2020
We develop a simple framework to measure the role of hospital allocation in racial disparities in health care and use … receives care, hospital care is highly effective, and hospital quality has been validated. We report four facts. (1) Black … patients receive care at lower-performing hospitals than white patients, even when they live in the same hospital market or ZIP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482237
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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/10012462274
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Technology Diffusion and Productivity Growth in Health Care
Skinner, Jonathan - 2009
Inefficiency in the U.S. health care system has often been characterized as "flat of the curve" spending providing little or no incremental value. In this paper, we draw on macroeconomic models of diffusion and productivity to better explain the empirical patterns of outcome improvements in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463783
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Organizational Fragmentation and Care Quality in the U.S. Health Care System
Cebul, Randall D. - 2008
increase costs. We illustrate our argument with examples taken from the insurance and the hospital industries, and discuss …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464435
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Returns to Physician Human Capital : Analyzing Patients Randomized to Physician Teams
Doyle, Joseph J, Jr - 2008
Patient sorting can confound estimates of the returns to physician human capital. This paper compares nearly 30,000 patients who were randomly assigned to clinical teams from one of two academic institutions. One institution is among the top medical schools in the country, while the other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464473