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Concurrence, prix et qualité de la prise en charge en EHPAD en France : Analyses micro-économétriques
Martin, Cécile - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014
High prices and insufficient quality of care are observed in nursing homes in France. Reforms are currently under discussion, but governments are facing a dilemma : any measure of price cut is likely to affect quality and any improvement in quality would probably be inflationary. This work...
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Health Care Reform and Long-Term Care in the Netherlands
Schut, Erik; Sorbe, Stéphane; Høj, Jens - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
The Netherlands, as other OECD countries, faces the challenge of providing high quality health and long-term care services to an ageing population in a cost-efficient manner. In the health care sector, reforms have aimed at introducing more competition. Despite major changes and some positive...
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Is There a 'Continental' View of Health Economics Evaluation ?
Le Pen, Claude - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011166575
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The impact of quality on hospital choice. Which information affects patients’ behavior for colorectal resection or knee replacement?
Kuklinski, David; Vogel, Justus; Geissler, Alexander - In: Health Care Management Science 24 (2021) 1, pp. 185-202
Quality competition among hospitals, induced by patients freely choosing their hospital in a price regulated market …, can only be realized if quality differences between hospitals are transparent, understandable, and thus influence patients …' hospital choice. We use data from ~145,000 German patients and ~ 900 hospitals for colorectal resections and knee replacements …
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Waiting time distribution in public health care: Empirics and theory
Dimakou, Sofia; Dimakou, Ourania; Basso, Henrique S. - In: Health Economics Review 5 (2015) 25, pp. 1-27
hospitals characteristics that determine waiting times? By developing a model of healthcare provision and analysing empirically … that describes the optimal waiting time distribution for capacity constraint hospitals. Secondly, employing duration … analysis, we obtain empirical representations of that distribution across hospitals in the UK from 1997-2005. We observe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011599851
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Hospitals and the generic versus brand-name prescription decision in the outpatient sector
Pruckner, Gerald J.; Schober, Thomas - 2016
Healthcare payers try to reduce costs by promoting the use of cheaper generic drugs. We show strong interrelations in drug prescriptions between the inpatient and outpatient sectors by using a large administrative dataset from Austria. Patients with prior hospital visits have a significantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663278
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Waiting time distribution in public health care : empirics and theory
Dimakou, Sofia; Dimakou, Ourania; Basso, Henrique S. - In: Health economics review 5 (2015) 25, pp. 1-27
hospitals characteristics that determine waiting times? By developing a model of healthcare provision and analysing empirically … that describes the optimal waiting time distribution for capacity constraint hospitals. Secondly, employing duration … analysis, we obtain empirical representations of that distribution across hospitals in the UK from 1997-2005. We observe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011471988
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Quality-based financing : the Norwegian experience
Huus, Axel Miguel; Baardseng, Thomas Neby - In: OECD journal on budgeting 19 (2019) 3, pp. 123-130
In this article we give a presentation of the Norwegian quality based financing (QBF) mechanism and our experiences with this financing mechanism. The article outlines the main features of the Norwegian health care system, and its financing mechanisms. We then focus in on the QBF with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418974
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Hospitals and the generic versus brand-name prescription decision in the outpatient sector
Pruckner, Gerald J.; Schober, Thomas - 2016
Healthcare payers try to reduce costs by promoting the use of cheaper generic drugs. We show strong interrelations in drug prescriptions between the inpatient and outpatient sectors by using a large administrative dataset from Austria. Patients with prior hospital visits have a significantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011570769
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Die Krankenhäuser Ostdeutschlands in Transition : eine registerbasierte Analyse amtlicher Paneldaten
Ulbrich, Hannes-Friedrich - Lehrstuhl für Statistik und Ökonometrie, Wirtschafts- … - 2012
Vorliegende Arbeit untersucht – nach intensiver Datenanalyse und -klärung – die ersten eineinhalb Jahrzehnte Transition in Ostdeutschland ökonometrisch. Im Mittelpunkt stehen dabei die Interaktionen zwischen der allgemeinen Wirtschaft und den Krankenhäusern sowie – auf Basis der...
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