, 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 …

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 …

reinforcement of physician liability for off-label use may be the preferred instrument for achieving dynamic efficiency. The … liability threat reduces the demand for off-label use, giving manufacturers an appropriate incentive to invest in extended … approval. By contrast, patent prolongation does not affect physicians' prescription decisions and increases the likelihood of …

Previous literature indicates that non-economic damages caps increase the number of physicians but finds no significant … effect on health. A potential explanation is that, by reducing the cost of malpractice, caps affect physicians’ incentives to … evidence of increase use of physicians located across the border. Taken together these results provide suggestive evidence of a …

The U.S. medical malpractice liability system has two principal objectives: to compensate patients who are injured … compensates those who haven't. According to opinion surveys of physicians, the system creates incentives to undertake cost …-ineffective treatments based on fear of legal liability—to practice "defensive medicine." The failures of the liability system and the high …

practices and, more generally, that physicians may indeed adhere to specific liability standards. In connection with the … treatments and diagnostic procedures following the adoption of a rule requiring physicians to follow national, as opposed to …

We analyze the impact of liability risks for malpractice on the optimal reimbursement schemes for hospitals. In our … motivation is biased towards quality. In our basic model without liability risks, we then find that either a fee … liability risks, mixed systems are in general optimal, and the variable part of costs that should be borne by the hospital is …

to its population. In spite of this, Québec’s family physicians and the general public regularly report that provincial … “very difficult” time accessing after-hours care versus 58 percent of Ontarians. Why? Quebec physicians tend to spend less … for the shortest physician’s work week at 34.9 hours, compared to 43 in Ontario. Younger doctors (under age 45) work even …