effects of competition for active patients as well as the negative effects of competition for passive patients become more … pronounced. Our results imply that competition can not only improve but also worsen patient outcome and that patients …We study how competition between physicians affects the provision of medical care. In our theoretical model physicians …

compliance with patient safety measures in both public and private facilities (more so in the latter) and reallocated patients …

Objective By manipulating patients' critical attitude in a video experiment, we examined whether physicians are more … gynaecologists/obstetricians and orthopaedists randomly to four hypothetical video consultations, in which the patients show either a … patients' verbal critical attitude (which indicates patients' intention to take further steps), while keeping constant …

quality as head of a hospital. We find that the post-merger average quality is significantly lower than the average pre … profit maximizing hospitals. We show that the upward deviation is potentially driven by altruistic behavior towards patients … fusionierten Krankenhäusern gehören oder als allein operierendes Krankenhaus agieren – durchschnittlich eine signifikant höhere …

We evaluate the effect of a pro-competition reform gradually introduced in France over the 2004-2008 period on hospital … quality measured with the mortality of heart-attack patients. Our analysis distinguishes between hospitals depending on their … and financial autonomy as well as their reimbursement systems and incentives for competition before the reform, but they …