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How Spillovers from Appointment Reminders Improve Health Clinic Efficiency

Boone, Claire E. - 2020

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...

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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 …

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Doing More with Less : Predicting Primary Care Provider Effectiveness

Currie, Janet M.; Zhang, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper uses data from 802,777 veterans assigned to 7,548 primary care providers (PCPs) within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) to examine variations in the efficacy of primary care providers (PCPs), their consequences for health outcomes, and their determinants. Leveraging...

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The Great Unequalizer : Initial Health Effects of COVID-19 in the United States

Alsan, Marcella; Chandra, Amitabh; Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We measure inequities from the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality and hospitalizations in the United States during the early months of the outbreak. We discuss challenges in measuring health outcomes and health inequality, some of which are specific to COVID-19 and others that complicate attribution...

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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...

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The Anatomy of a Hospital System Merger : The Patient Did Not Respond Well to Treatment

Gaynor, Martin; Sacarny, Adam; Sadun, Raffaella; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Despite the continuing US hospital merger wave, it remains unclear how mergers change, or fail to change, hospital … behavior and performance. We open the "black box" of hospital practices through a mega-merger between two for-profit chains …

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Physician Group Influences on Treatment Intensity and Health : Evidence from Physician Switchers

Doyle, Joseph J.; Staiger, Becky - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

same hospital to control for practice setting. Event studies show that internists who join more-intensive groups …

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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...

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Impact of Rural and Urban Hospital Closures on Inpatient Mortality

Gujral, Kritee - 2019

This paper examines the impact of California's hospital closures occurring from 1995-2011 on adjusted inpatient … Development (OSHPD) data, the impact of hospital closures on inpatient mortality is estimated. Outcomes of admissions in hospital … in prior work by using a reconciled list of California's hospital closures and by studying differential impacts of rural …

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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 …

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