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Innovation in Healthcare with a Focus on Cancer Care
Efthymiou - Egleton, Iris - Panagiota; Vozikis, Athanassios - 2021
Health is not characterized only by the absence of disease; nowadays, health can be perceived as a human right. Health policies all over the world aim to increase the life expectancy, the health, and the quality of life of citizens, within the limits of the available resources. In this opinion...
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Integration of Patients' Decision-Making in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Diabetes Interventions : A Simulation Study Using System Dynamics Modeling
Xu, Judy - 2016
Markov-based and discrete event simulation models are widely used in health economic analysis to estimate the long term effects of treatment on clinical and economic outcomes. However, none of them simultaneously integrate patients' economic resources and their medical decision making in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982762
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Vaccination Policy, Delayed Care, and Health Expenditures
Aslim, Erkmen Giray; Fu, Wei; Liu, Chia-Lun; Tekin, Erdal - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected the United States healthcare system, resulting in major disruptions in the delivery of essential care and causing crippling financial losses that threaten the viability of millions of medical practices. There is little empirical evidence on the types...
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Co-Production of Prolonged, Complex, and Negative Services : An Examination of Medication Adherence in Chronically Ill Individuals
Spanjol, Jelena - 2016
This study examines customer co-production in a prolonged, complex, and negative service context — medication adherence in chronically ill individuals. We integrate services and medical perspectives to develop a novel theoretical framework of adherence as a nested system of co-production...
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Overconfidence and Technology Adoption in Health Care
Comin, Diego; Skinner, Jonathan; Staiger, Douglas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Variation in technology adoption is a key driver of differences in productivity. Previous studies sought to explain variations in technology adoption by heterogeneity in profitability, costs of adoption, or other factors. Less is known about how adoption is affected by bias in the perceived...
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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...
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The value of socialized medicine : the impact of universal primary healthcare provision on birth and mortality rates in Turkey
Cesur, Resul; Güneş, Pınar Mine; Tekin, Erdal; … - 2015
This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey. The Family Medicine Program (FMP), launched in 2005,...
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Geographic Variation in Healthcare Utilization : The Role of Physicians
Badinski, Ivan; Finkelstein, Amy; Gentzkow, Matthew Aaron; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the role of physicians in driving geographic variation of US healthcare utilization. We estimate a model that … separates variation in average utilization of Medicare beneficiaries due to physicians, non-physician supply side factors, and … patient demand. The model is identified by migration of patients and physicians across areas, as well as by variation in …
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Healthy reviews! : online physician ratings reduce healthcare interruptions
Kummer, Michael E.; Laitenberger, Ulrich; Rich, Cyrus E.; … - 2021
from a physician’s retirement. We then show that online physician reviews reduce this gap and help patients find a new … physician reviews, but are not found for patients of nonretiring physicians. By reducing interruptions in care, reviews can …
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Custom-made healthcare : an experimental investigation
Keser, Claudia; Montmarquette, Claude; Schmidt, Martin B.; … - 2014
-for-service (FFS) or capitation (CAP). We observe that physicians customize care in response to the payment system. A FFS patient …. Physicians over-serve FFS patients and under-serve CAP patients. After a CAP payment reduction in the experiment we observe …
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