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Mit maerkischen Innovationen die ambulante Versorgung gestalten
Helming, Hans-Joachim - In: Zeitschrift fuer Wirtschaftspolitik 63 (2014) 3, pp. 282-292
, the practicing physicians tend to be older and young doctors are becoming less willing to settle in their own surgery. To … cope with these challenges the Regional Associations of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in Brandenburg …
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Aerztemangel im laendlichen Raum – Neue Anreizstrukturen und innovative Versorgungsmodelle als Ausweg? Zur Bedeutung einer patientenorientierten Steuerung
Zerth, Jürgen - In: Zeitschrift fuer Wirtschaftspolitik 63 (2014) 3, pp. 269-281
In Germany there is an ongoing debate on the adequate distribution of physicians that are obliged to guarantee the …. From a health economics point of view it has to be discussed which role physicians have to play within different forms of … organizing care and cure. In the paper, a standardized utility function that depicts physicians’ interest helps to figure out the …
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Rahmenbedingungen fuer eine effektive Versorgungssteuerung in Stadt und Land
Greß, Stefan; Stegmüller, Klaus - In: Zeitschrift fuer Wirtschaftspolitik 63 (2014) 3, pp. 259-268
General practitioner (GP) care in Germany is characterized by a disparate distribution of GPs. There is considerable oversupply in many urban areas while there is undersupply in many rural regions. Centralized planning of GP capacities so far has not been able to ameliorate this unequal...
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Learning from Other Economies - for example from Somewhere Down Under
Freeman, Richard B. - In: CESifo DICE Report 5 (2007) 3, pp. 33-37
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The Post-Crisis Healthcare System: Effects of the Economic Crisis in Romania
SUCIU, Marta Christina; STAN, Cristian Adrian; … - In: Theoretical and Applied Economics XVIII(2012) (2012) 5(570), pp. 157-168
The economic crisis is still on the lips of economic and political analysts from nations around the world, even more so in places where its effects continue to make themselves felt. Romania is among these troubled countries, having to deal with no just the aftermath but also signs of a possible...
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Politico-Economic Determinants of Tort Reforms in Medical Malpractice
Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Universität Basel - 2015
The U.S. tort system has experienced various reforms during the last three decades. While there is a broad literature on the consequences of these reforms, very little is known about their determinants. In this study, we investigate the politico-economic forces that were driving the reform...
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Interpreting pre-trends as anticipation: Impact on estimated treatment effects from tort reform
Malani, Anup; Reif, Julian - In: Journal of Public Economics 124 (2015) C, pp. 1-17
' expectations are unobservable. Finally, this paper examines a specific set of tort reforms that was not targeted at physicians but …
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Patient Welfare under the Legal Standard of Care
Olbrich, Anja - In: Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy 8 (2008) 2, pp. 1827-1827
-part reimbursement scheme that induces physicians not to comply with the legal standard. If this is infeasible, another reimbursement …
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Medical Malpractice and Physician Liability Under a Negligence Rule
Wright, Donald J. - School of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences - 2011
A model of costly medical malpractice claims, based on Bayes Rule, is developed to examine the effects of physicians … pattern of claims. It is shown that compensating actual damage does not provide physicians with appropriate incentives to …
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Losers and Losers: Some Demographics of Medical Malpractice Tort Reforms
Friedson, Andrew I.; Kniesner, Thomas J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Our research examines individual differences in the effects of medical malpractice tort reforms on pre-trial settlement speed and settlement amounts by age and most likely settlement size. Findings of note include that, unlike previously assumed, both absolute and percentage losses from tort...
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