rights to bodily integrity and well-being. In terms of the law, patients cannot be involved in medical treatment or research … without IC. Healthcare providers must inform patients about diagnosis, risks, benefits, treatment options, and right of … refusal in a language patients understand based their literacy level. This study reports an empirical study on patients …

neglect the competition between health care providers for patients which is crucial for medical quality. This third field of …Many health economists demand more competition in the health care system. They focus on the competition between … sickness funds for insured and the competition between health care providers for contracts with sickness funds. But they …

Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty procedures over the years 2008-2011. We examine how patients' choice of the hospital … of the discouraging effect of travel distance. We provide evidence that patients are responsive to changes in waiting ….17 and - 1.38, respectively. Patients' personal characteristics significantly influence how they trade off distance and …

We study how competition between physicians affects the provision of medical care. In our theoretical model physicians … 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 …

online health platforms create value for patients and doctors and explore how market designs influence value creation. We … develop a structural demand and supply model for an online health market that is characterized by patients' trade-offs between … platform, we recover patients' preference for the service quality and price sensitivity as well as doctors' heterogeneous pro …