of 21,771 individuals, including 9282 patients with Crohn disease and 12,489 patients with ulcerative colitis. Patients … pathways and guidelines. No clear evidence of a general healthcare undersupply in rural areas was found. …

quality and safety—a goal that has increased in importance as countries have faced new safety concerns connected to the COVID …

to infectious ones. These results highlight the need for cautious AI integration in healthcare systems to ensure quality …

General Practitioners (GP) have limited means to compete. As quality is hard to observe by patients, GPs have … incentives to signal quality by using instruments patients perceive as quality. …

Background: General Practitioners have limited means to compete. As quality is hard to observe by patients, GPs have … incentives to signal quality by using instruments patients perceive as quality.<br/>Objectives: We investigate whether GPs … no monetary benefit in doing so, this type of (perceived) quality competition originates from GPs satisfying patients …

Background: General Practitioners have limited means to compete. As quality is hard to observe by patients, GPs have … incentives to signal quality by using instruments patients perceive as quality.<br/>Objectives: We investigate whether GPs … no monetary benefit in doing so, this type of (perceived) quality competition originates from GPs satisfying patients …

This paper analyses simultaneous regulation of cost and quality when firms have private, correlated information about … productivity and the regulator receives a signal about quality. It is shown that managerial effort and expenditures on quality are … positively correlated in the optimal contract. The higher is firm productivity the more should the firm spend on quality …

Policies aimed to spur quality competition among health care providers are ubiquitous, but their impact on quality is … ex ante ambiguous. This study contributes to the sparse empirical literature on primary care quality by examining the … in more exposed markets, but the effects on primary care quality in these markets were modest: we find small improvements …

health care system is to encourage providers to keep costs down without skimping on quality. The purpose of this paper is to … analyse the effect of price regulation and free choice on quality in physiotherapy organised by the Social Insurance … effect of the regulation and for this task we have defined the regulated and non-regulated firms and their quality before and …

health care system is to encourage providers to keep costs down without skimping on quality. The purpose of this paper is to … analyse the effect of price regulation and free choice on quality in physiotherapy organised by the Social Insurance … effect of the regulation and for this task we have defined the regulated and non-regulated firms and their quality before and …