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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...
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für eine patientengesteuerte Gesundheitsversorgung mittels elektronischer Patientenakte -- Medizinischer Unterversorgung … Verbesserung der Gesundheitsversorgung im ländlichen Afrika – Machbarkeitsstudie einer mHealth-Lösung für Diabetes-Patienten in …, welche digitalen bzw. digital gestützten Lösungskonzepte und Dienstleistungen zur Verbesserung der Gesundheitsversorgung und …
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Conceived in an effort to improve clinical operations, patient experience, and medical quality, physician-owned hospitals (POHs) flourished until 2003, when industry concerns over patient selection, cost of care, and overutilization prompted government oversight and legislation. Subsequent...
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This paper estimates effects of early ADHD medication use on key human capital outcomes for children diagnosed with ADHD while using rarely available register based data on diagnoses and prescription drug purchases. Our main identification strategy exploits plausible exogenous assignment of...
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In efforts to decrease emergency department (ED) crowding and health care costs, frequent users of ED services have been targeted for interventions to decrease their utilization. Previous studies have had different definitions for frequent users and have considered all frequent users as a...
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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...
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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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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...
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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 efficiency in a subset of OECD countries, based on three...
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