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The Fiduciary Obligation of Physicians to 'Just Say No' if an 'Informed' Patient Demands Services that Are Not Medically Indicated
Hafemeister, Thomas L. - 2010
increasingly demand specific drugs, treatment, or other medical services from their physicians. If the physician fails to provide … their treatment plans. As a result of these treatment demands, physicians are under growing pressure to provide the …'s financial survival. Physicians, however, have a fiduciary obligation to their patients, which includes the duty to resist …
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Designing AI-augmented Healthcare Delivery Systems for Physician Buy-in and Patient Acceptance
Dai, Tinglong; Tayur, Sridhar R. - 2022
-augmented healthcare delivery systems in view of (1) how physicians integrate AI into their clinical practice and (2) how patients perceive …
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The Effect of Competition on Process and Outcome Quality within Hospital Care in the Netherlands
Bijlsma, Michiel - 2011
This study examines the impact of competition on hospital quality. Our panel covers all Dutch hospitals in the period 2004–2008, in which the transparency of hospital quality information increased substantially. The paper contributes to the existing literature by including both outcome and...
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Assessment of Service Quality Dimensions in Healthcare Industry 'A Comparative Study on Patient’s Satisfaction with Mayiladuthurai Taluk Government vs. Private Hospitals'
Edison Anthony Raj, Arul - 2019
Average service quality perception toward Government hospitals lead to increasing demand for good quality Government health care in Mayiladuthurai Taluk. Observing the growth of private health care sector, highly number of patients get satisfied with the service quality of private hospitals in...
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Health IT and Ambulatory Care Quality
Gresenz, Carole R. - 2017
US government investments in health information technology (IT) reflect the significant promise of digitization for improving quality and efficiency in health care. Previous studies of the impact of health IT have focused on the hospital setting, despite the fact that most care is delivered in...
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Patient Mobility, Health Care Quality, Welfare and Regulation
Karpov, Alexander - 2014
This paper justifies unequal health care quality in a model with two regions and patients differentiated by location and quality perception. Efficient distribution with unequal healthcare quality arises when there are low travel and/or quality provision costs. If costs are sufficiently low, then...
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Readiness of electronic health record systems to contribute to national health information and research
Oderkirk, Jillian - 2017
All countries are investing in the development of electronic health (clinical) records, but only some countries are moving forward the possibility of data extraction for research, statistics and other uses that serve the public interest. This study reports on the development and use of data from...
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The Economic Impact of Healthcare Quality
Helsø, Anne-Line Koch - 2019
We study the costs of hospitalizations on patients' earnings and labor supply, using the universe of hospital admissions in Denmark and full-population tax data. We evaluate the quality of treatment based on its ability to mitigate the labor market consequences of a given diagnosis and propose a...
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Privacy and Quality in Health Care
Christensen Sethi, Rachel - 2002
This article presents current activity in the privacy of personal health information (PHI) and the quality of health care, discusses the connections between them, and examines the effects of this activity on certain groups. In recent years, as more insurers, providers, and purchasers have...
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Patient’s Choice or Switching Attitude Towards Health Care Services in Private Hospitals
Musunuru, Kamakshaiah - 2011
Patient satisfaction is deemed to be one of the important factors which determine the success of health care organizations. Indian health care sector is witnessing awesome changes with respect to growth as it is going to be USD 150 billion by 2017. As world health organization reports that India...
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