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Consequences of ADHD medication use for children's outcomes
Dalsgaard, Søren; Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Simonsen, Marianne - 2014
treated. Results show that children diagnosed with ADHD in pharmacological treatment have fewer hospital contacts if treated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358748
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Analysis of Costs, Length of Stay, and Utilization of Emergency Department Services By Frequent Users : Implications for Health Policy
Prah Ruger, Jennifer - 2007
, cross-sectional study of clinical and financial records for all ED visits to an urban, academic hospital in 2001 …, hospital inpatient length of stay, payment method, costs, and demographics. Results: Patients with three to 20 visits were more … likely to be admitted to the hospital than patients visiting once or twice. Patients visiting more than 20 times were less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778161
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Price Changes in Regulated Healthcare Markets : Do Public Hospitals Respond and How?
Verzulli, Rossella - 2015
This paper examines the behaviour of public hospitals in response to the average payment incentives created by price changes for patients classified in different Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs). Using panel data on public hospitals located within the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, we test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013010481
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Medical Technology : Electromedicine Driving Healthcare
Heng, Stefan - 2015
Innovative products form the foundation for the international success of electromedical technology in Germany. This is shown both in the strong sales achieved by the German medical technology segment compared with other industrial countries and the export share of more than 70%, which even...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015990
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Healthcare Costs, Choice of Providers and Patient Satisfaction : Survey Evidence from India
Arora, Prateek; Singh, Nirvikar; Visaria, Abhijit - 2021
In this paper, we seek to examine the factors that influence the choice of healthcare providers in the rural areas of a highly developed state of India, Punjab. In particular, we examined the choice between government and private providers, as well as between medical professionals and informal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013215588
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Re-Examining Supplier-Induced Demand in Health Care : Comparisons Among Patients Affiliated and Not Affiliated with Healthcare Professionals in China
Si, Yafei; Zhou, Zhongliang; Chen, Xi - 2021
Doing "more" in healthcare can be a major threat to the delivery of high-quality health care. This study used coarsened exact matching to test the hypothesis of supplier-induced demand (SID) by comparing health care utilization and expenditures between patients affiliated with healthcare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315161
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Improving the Efficiency of Health Care Spending : Selected Evidence on Hospital Performance
Erlandsen, Espen - 2007
There are no ready-made data on hospital outputs and inputs which would allow comprehensive international comparisons … of hospital efficiency to be carried out. This paper, therefore, relies on selected evidence to compare hospital … standard hospital treatments; ii) overall efficiency levels in a set of paired countries; iii) within-country dispersion in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446148
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Re-examining supplier-induced demand in health care: comparisons among patients affiliated and not affiliated with healthcare professionals in China
Si, Yafei; Zhou, Zhongliang; Su, Min; Hu, Han; Yang, Zesen - 2020
Doing "more" in healthcare can be a major threat to the delivery of high-quality health care. This study used coarsened exact matching to test the hypothesis of supplier-induced demand (SID) by comparing health care utilization and expenditures between patients affiliated with healthcare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012304913
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Re-examining supplier-induced demand in health care : comparisons among patients affiliated and not affiliated with healthcare professionals in China
Si, Yafei; Zhou, Zhongliang; Su, Min; Hu, Han; Yang, Zesen - 2020
Doing "more" in healthcare can be a major threat to the delivery of high-quality health care. This study used coarsened exact matching to test the hypothesis of supplier-induced demand (SID) by comparing health care utilization and expenditures between patients affiliated with healthcare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012300050
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Who cares when you close down? : the effects of primary care practice closures on patients
Bischof, Tamara; Kaiser, Boris - 2019
care providers (-12%) towards specialist care (+10%), and hospital outpatient facilities (+5%). The magnitude of these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012102538