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Identifying Factors Affecting Patients’ Satisfaction Against Quality of Health Care Services : An Investigation from Aga Khan Hospital Karachi
Nasir, Fouzia; Herani, Gobind M.; Ahmad, Nawaz - 2013
, emergency services, pharmacy services, physical appearance and layout of the hospital. This study concludes that the majority of … the patients are satisfied with the services provided by the in-patient department of Aga Khan Hospital. The strengths of … hospital must improve its billing system and should give discount on medicines as well …
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Does price competition damage healthcare quality?
Roos, Anne-Fleur; Van Doorslaer, Eddy; O'Donnell, Owen; … - 2018
One of the reasons why regulators are hesitant about permitting price competition in healthcare markets is that it may damage quality when information is poor. Evidence on whether this fear is well-founded is scarce. We provide evidence using a reform that permitted Dutch health insurers and...
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How do non-monetary performance incentives for physicians affect the quality of medical care? : a laboratory experiment ; conference paper
Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja; Krieger, Miriam - 2014
In recent years, several countries have introduced non-monetary performance incentives for health care providers to improve the quality of medical care. Evidence on the effect of non-monetary feedback incentives, predominantly in the form of public quality reporting, on the quality of medical...
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Do market incentives for hospitals affect health and service utilization? : evidence from PPS-DRG tariffs in Italian regions
Cappellari, Lorenzo; De Paoli, Anna; Turati, Gilberto - 2016
We exploit variation across Italian Regions in the implementation of region-specific tariffs within a Prospective Pay System (PPS) for hospitals based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) to assess their impact on health and on the use of health care services. We consider survey data for the years...
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Using fees to reduce bed-blocking : a game between hospitals and care providers
Kverndokk, Snorre; Melberg, Hans Olav - 2016
, we introduce a Stackelberg game where the hospital is the leader and the care institution is the follower. The reform …
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Relating Patient Satisfaction to Insurance Coverage : A Comparison of Market Based and Government Sponsored Health Care
Bohm, Josef - 2014
It is generally accepted that satisfaction with health care is multidimensional and includes many factors removed from the direct delivery of medical services. The analysis seeks to determine if patient satisfaction with health care varies by type of insurance coverage held and whether overall...
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Cost and Quality of Care in Physician-Owned Hospitals : A Systematic Review
Miller, Brian - 2021
invigorate competition in the market and deploy other regulatory tools to address concerns associated with physician hospital …
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Is it good to be too light? : birth weight thresholds in hospital reimbursement systems
Reif, Simon; Wichert, Sebastian; Wuppermann, Amelie - 2017
Birth weight manipulation is common in per-case hospital reimbursement systems, in which hospitals receive more money … the quantity and quality of care that newborns receive. Based on the universe of hospital births in Germany from the years …
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Is it good to be too light? : birth weight thresholds in hospital reimbursement systems
Reif, Simon; Wichert, Sebastian; Wuppermann, Amelie - 2017
Birth weight manipulation is common in per-case hospital reimbursement systems, in which hospitals receive more money … the quantity and quality of care that newborns receive. Based on the universe of hospital births in Germany from the years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630956
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Divided by choice? : private providers, patient choice and hospital sorting in the English National Health Service
Beckert, Walter; Kelly, Elaine - 2017
A common reform used to increase consumer choice and competition in public services has been to allow private providers to compete with public incumbents. However, there remains a concern that not all consumers are able to benefit equally from wider choice. We consider the case of publicly...
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