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Healer or gatekeeper? : physicians' role conflict when symptoms are non-verifiable
Carlsen, Benedicte; Nyborg, Karine - 2017
Although physicians are often expected to be gatekeepers to health insurance benefits such as paid sick leave, research … most physicians prefer to be good gatekeepers, all of them may trust their patients in Nash equilibrium. These ideas are … illustrated using results from focus group interviews with Norwegian primary care physicians. …
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P4P, reputation and the reduction of costly overprovision
Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja - 2012
assume that physicians differ in their degree of altruism, enjoy being perceived as good but dislike being perceived as …
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Economic Motives and Professional Norms : The Case of General Medical Practice
Iversen, Tor; Luras, Hilde - 2001
physicians who experience a shortage of patients have higher income, longer and more frequent consultations and more laboratory …
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Identifying age-cohort-time effects, their curvature and interactions from polynomials : examples related to sickness absence
Biørn, Erik - 2013
set for individual long-term sickness absence in Norway are given. The sensitivity to the estimated marginal effects of …
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The supply of information by a concerned expert
Caplin, Andrew; Leahy, John Vincent - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 114 (2004) 497, pp. 487-505
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The supply of information by a concerned expert
Caplin, Andrew; Leahy, John Vincent - 1999
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Old boys' network in general practitioner's referral behavior
Hackl, Franz; Hummer, Michael; Pruckner, Gerald J. - 2013
We analyzed the impact of social networks on general practitioners (GPs) referral behavior based on administrative panel data from 2,684,273 referrals to resident specialists made between 1998 and 2007. To construct estimated social networks, we used information on the doctors place and time of...
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Chapter 22 Economics of general practice
Scott, Anthony - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 1175-1200). 2000
General (or family) practice and its role within primary care is increasingly regarded as the key to achieving efficiency and equity in many health care systems. This is particularly relevant where general practitioners (GPs) act as gatekeepers to specialist care. This chapter outlines the main...
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Competition Leverage : How the Demand Side Affects Optimal Risk Adjustment
Bijlsma, Michiel - 2011
We study optimal risk adjustment in imperfectly competitive health insurance markets when high-risk consumers are less likely to switch insurer than low-risk consumers. First, we find that insurers still have an incentive to select even if risk adjustment perfectly corrects for cost differences...
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The international provision of pharmaceuticals: a comparison of two alternative theoretical strategies for global ethics
Pies, Ingo; Hielscher, Stefan - 2007
Millions of people in the developing world lack access to curative drugs. Thomas Pogge identifies the cause for this problem in a lack of redistribution across borders. By contrast, this article shows that institutional shortcomings within developing countries are the main issue. The different...
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