We compare the online reviews of 221 “Questionable” Illinois and Indiana physicians with multiple paid medical … malpractice claims and disciplinary sanctions with matched control physicians with clean records. Across five prominent online … hospital-associated physicians with paid malpractice claims and disciplinary sanctions. These findings raise questions about …

privately owned hospitals to enter the market. We show that, post-reform, poor and ethnic minority patients were much less … suggest differences in health explain 18% of the difference in the use of private providers between rich and poor patients …

This paper analyzes the impact of service quality on patients' satisfaction with the Portuguese National Health Service … patients' satisfaction, introducing some subjectivity on the analysis since the concept of satisfaction is, itself, debatable …

Physician compensation accounts for about one-fifth of all Canadian healthcare spending. But physicians’ decisions …, particularly those made by primary care doctors, are the conduit for the majority of the system’s costs. The incentives physicians … could be extended so that primary care physicians would keep track of the costs of their referrals and prescribed treatments …

Entwicklungen in Deutschland, Großbritannien und den USA vorgestellt. …

This paper investigates the consequences that patients face when their regular primary care provider closes down her … practice, typically due to retirement. We estimate the causal impact of closures on patients' utilization patterns, medical … expenditures, hospitalizations, and health plan choice. Employing a difference-in-difference framework, we find that patients who …