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Patient mobility, health care quality and welfare
Brekke, Kurt R.; Levaggi, Rosella; Siciliani, Luigi; … - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 105 (2014) C, pp. 140-157
mobility on health care quality, health care financing and welfare. We show that without patient mobility quality is too low …
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Multitasking, Quality and Pay for Performance
Kaarbøe, Oddvar M.; Siciliani, Luigi - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2011
We present a model of optimal contracting between a purchaser and a provider of health services when quality has two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876378
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Patient Mobility, Health Care Quality and Welfare
Brekke, Kurt Richard; Levaggi, Rosella; Siciliani, Luigi; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
on health care quality, health care financing and welfare. A decentralised solution without patient mobility leads to too …
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Patient Mobility, Health Care Quality and Welfare.
Brekke, Kurt R.; Levaggi, Rosella; Siciliani, Luigi; … - Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2011
on health care quality, health care financing and welfare. A decentralised solution without patient mobility leads to too …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323351
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Differences in Length of Stay between Public Hospitals, Treatment Centres and Private Providers: Selection or Efficiency?
Siciliani, Luigi; Sivey, Peter; Street, Andrew - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social … - 2011
We investigate differences in patients’ length of stay between National Health Service (NHS) public hospitals, public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009228764
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Patient Mobility, Health Care Quality and Welfare
Brekke, Kurt R.; Levaggi, Rosella; Siciliani, Luigi; … - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2011
Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently pased a new law on patients`right to EU-wide provider choice. In this paper we use a hotelling model with txo regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility leads to too low (higt) quality and two few (many)...
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Hospital Mergers with Regulated Prices
Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2014
We study the effects of a hospital merger using a spatial competition framework with semialtruistic hospitals that invest in quality and expend cost-containment effort facing regulated prices. We find that the merging hospitals always reduce quality, whereas non-merging hospitals respond by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851032
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Hospital Mergers with Regulated Prices.
Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2014
We study the effects of a hospital merger using a spatial competition framework with semialtruistic hospitals that invest in quality and expend cost-containment effort facing regulated prices. We find that the merging hospitals always reduce quality, whereas non-merging hospitals respond by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818861
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Waiting times and socioeconomic status: Evidence from England
Laudicella, Mauro; Siciliani, Luigi; Cookson, Richard - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 9, pp. 1331-1341
Waiting times for elective surgery, like hip replacement, are often referred to as an equitable rationing mechanism in publicly-funded healthcare systems because access to care is not based on socioeconomic status. Previous work has established that that this may not be the case and there is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011042230
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Optimal Price-Setting in Pay for Performance Schemes in Health Care
Rud Kristensen, Søren; Siciliani, Luigi; Sutton, Matt - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
health gains, providers’ altruism and the opportunity cost of public funds. We derive optimal prices for processes … incentivised in the Best Practice Tariffs for emergency stroke care in the English National Health Service. Based on published … estimates, we compare these to the prices set by the English Department of Health. We find that actual tariffs were lower than …
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