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Comparing Hospital Quality at For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Hospitals
McClellan, Mark - 1999
yields far more accurate estimates of hospital quality than previously available. We find that, on average, for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471460
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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/10012460086
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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/10012461049
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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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The Impact of Healthcare IT on Clinical Quality, Productivity and Workers
Bronsoler, Ari; Doyle, Joseph J.; Van Reenen, John - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Adoption of health information and communication technologies ("HICT") has surged over the past two decades. We survey the medical and economic literature on HICT adoption and its impact on clinical outcomes, productivity and labor. We find that HICT improves clinical outcomes and lowers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012629438
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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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Hospitals As Hotels : The Role of Patient Amenities in Hospital Demand
Goldman, Dana - 2008
Amenities such as good food, attentive staff, and pleasant surroundings may play an important role in hospital demand … patient perspective, hospital quality therefore embodies amenities as well as clinical quality. We also find that a one …-standard-deviation increase in amenities raises a hospital's demand by 38.4% on average, whereas demand is substantially less responsive to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464028
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The Effect of Soft Budget Constraints on Access and Quality in Hospital Care
Shen, Yu-Chu - 2008
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/10012464391
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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