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When working together, people engage in non-contractual and informal interactions that constitute the sociology of the group. We use behavioral models and a unique survey of medical groups to analyze how group sociology influences physician incentive pay and behavior. We conclude that informal...
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physicians have lower participation rates than male physicians plus they are subject to higher occupational mismatch, and (ii …) moonlighting is more frequent among male physicians. In this paper we investigate whether such differences are related to the … university graduates, Spanish physicians are the ones most often coupled to partners with the same educational level and/or same …
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Variation in technology adoption is a key driver of differences in productivity. Previous studies sought to explain variations in technology adoption by heterogeneity in profitability, costs of adoption, or other factors. Less is known about how adoption is affected by bias in the perceived...
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Understanding how physicians respond to incentives from payment schemes is a central concern in health economics … capitation payments on physicians’ supply of medical services. In our experiment, physicians choose quantities of medical … services for patients with different states of health. We find that physicians provide significantly more services under fee …
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The decision to contact a physician and the decision, how often to contact a physician, are based on different decision makers. We introduce a negative binominal distributed hurdle model that specifies the two stages of the decision process as different stochastic processes, and takes also care...
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Bisher stand bei den Reformen der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung die Finanzierungsseite im Vordergrund, nun will sich die Bundesregierung auf die Leistungsseite konzentrieren. Wie kann mehr Wettbewerb im Gesundheitswesen etabliert werden? Welche Erfahrungen wurden damit im Ausland gemacht?...
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health care legislation up to the year 2003 as well as qualitative interviews with head physicians in hospitals (Chefärzte … (federal legis-lation) to a micro-level investigation of implementation (head physicians) the author shows to what extent …
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The paper reviews models of the physician-patient relationship to derive testable hypotheses about the relation between health, demand for medical services and patient's compliance. The models imply that in addition to existing information asymmetries the actions that physician and patient...
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Der Streik der Krankenhausärztinnen entwickelte sich nach dem Ausscheiden der Tarifgemeinschaft der Länder aus den Verhandlungen um den TvöD im Sommer 2005 aus selbstorganisierten Aktivitäten junger KrankenhausärtzInnen neben Abwehrkämpfen von ver.di-Mitgliedern aus anderen Berufsgruppen....
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Ein zukunftsfähiges Gesundheitswesen erfordert es, das Zusammenspiel von Patienteninteressen, Mitarbeiterinteressen und Wirtschaftlichkeit stärker in den Blick zu nehmen. Und es bedeutet, die Konsequenzen der Reorganisationsprozesse der vergangenen Jahre zu thematisieren. Wichtige Ergebnisse...
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