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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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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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Should I wait or should I go? : travelling versus waiting for better healthcare

Lippi Bruni, Matteo; Ugolini, Cristina; Verzulli, Rossella - 2021

Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty procedures over the years 2008-2011. We examine how patients' choice of the hospital …

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Healthcare quality and dementia risk

Aravena, José M.; Chen, Xi; Levy, Becca R. - 2024

Low healthcare quality has been found to predict the development of several illnesses in older adults, while the evidence on dementia is still lacking. This study assesses whether and to what extent experiencing low healthcare quality can be associated with developing dementia in people...

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Healthcare quality and dementia risk

Aravena, José M.; Chen, Xi; Levy, Becca R. - 2024

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Patients' satisfaction with the NHS : a novel indicator for Portugal

Santos, Eleonora; Khan, Shahed - 2018

This paper analyzes the impact of service quality on patients' satisfaction with the Portuguese National Health Service, through a novel indicator the Index of Satisfaction with the NHS that measures the share of children delivered in the NHS hospitals to total number of children delivered, in...

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Taking Quality of Healthcare Seriously in Provider Merger Analysis

Bernard, Kent - 2018

Traditionally, antitrust has not had a way to quantify the benefits of better healthcare outcomes from a potential merger, to balance them against the potential for increased costs. However, a branch of health care economics lets us make that calculation. It has not been used in antitrust...

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