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Many health care systems aim to enhance hospital quality by encouraging competition. However, evidence on the … relationship between quality and competition is inconclusive. My contribution to this literature is two-fold. Analyzing the … relationship between competition and quality for the German hospital market can give valuable insights about the nature of the …
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Many health care systems aim to enhance hospital quality by encouraging competition. However, evidence on the … relationship between quality and competition is inconclusive. My contribution to this literature is two-fold. Analyzing the … relationship between competition and quality for the German hospital market can give valuable insights about the nature of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013341757
Background: The regional availability of specialized physicians is an important aspect in healthcare of patients with IBD. The association between physician density and healthcare is not yet clear. Most studies did not consider district type, which reflects population density. Our research...
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damage quality when information is poor. Evidence on whether this fear is well-founded is scarce. We provide evidence using a … research that has relied on indicators of the quality of urgent treatments, we take advantage of the plausible absence of … selection bias in our setting to identify the effect on quality of non-acute hip replacements. Using administrative data on all …
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home data with a wide range of market structures, we find a U-shaped relationship between competition and service quality … effects of competition: the reputation building effect whereby competing firms choose high quality to build a good reputation … and the rent extraction effect whereby competition hinders investment for quality improvements by eliminating price premia …
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impacts on quality and social welfare and to identify pertinent findings from the theoretical and empirical literature on this … topic. The theoretical literature in economics on competition and quality, the theoretical literature in health economics on … this topic, and the empirical findings on competition and quality in health care markets are surveyed and their findings …
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Malmquist Index including the quality of the production process provided to the population. Decomposing the productivity process … in three different components (efficiency change, technological change and quality change) we can detemine if the …
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to infectious ones. These results highlight the need for cautious AI integration in healthcare systems to ensure quality …
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to infectious ones. These results highlight the need for cautious AI integration in healthcare systems to ensure quality …
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The design of incentive schemes that improve quality of care is a central issue for the healthcare sector. Nowadays we … contribute to improve quality of care, even when they are not based on the ex-post verification of performances. …
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