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Medical Malpractice Litigation and Tort Reform : It's the Incentives, Stupid

Hyman, David A.; Silver, Charles - 2006

complaints. Many of the preceding claims are facially implausible. The medical malpractice liability system is an enormous market … whose principal trading partners - trial lawyers and liability insurers - are sophisticated, economically-oriented repeat … malpractice liability system. These studies depict a system that is stable and predictable, that sorts valid from invalid claims …

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Non-Economic Damages in Medical Malpractice Appeals : Does the Jurisdiction Make a Difference?

Amaral-Garcia, Sofia - 2015

This article assesses predictors of payouts and non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases decided by the Spanish Supreme Court from 2006 until 2010. Medical malpractice cases can be judged in administrative or civil courts, and this distinction heavily relies on the type of hospital...

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Do Damages Caps Reduce Medical Malpractice Insurance Premiums? : A Systematic Review of Estimates and the Methods Used to Produce Them

Zeiler, Kathryn - 2012

Despite common claims made in policy debates, the theoretical connection between tort reform and medical malpractice insurance premiums is ambiguous. Simple models suggest reforms such as statutory damages caps reduce premiums. More elaborate models that account for changes in physician behavior...

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The Receding Tide of Medical Malpractice Litigation Part 1 : National Trends

Paik, Myungho; Black, Bernard S.; Hyman, David A. - 2015

The U.S. has experienced three medical malpractice (“med mal”) crises in the past forty years. In response, thirty-one states now have caps on non-economic or total damages. Researchers have studied the impact of these caps, relative to control states without caps, but have not studied...

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Losers and Losers : Some Demographics of Medical Malpractice Tort Reforms

Friedson, Andrew - 2011

Our research examines individual differences in the effects of medical malpractice tort reforms on pre-trial settlement speed and settlement amounts by age and most likely settlement size. Findings of note include that, unlike previously assumed, both absolute and percentage losses from tort...

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Do financial incentives alter physician prescription behavior? : evidence from random patient-GP allocations

Ahammer, Alexander; Zilic, Ivan - 2017 - This version: February 4, 2017

Do physicians respond to financial incentives? We address this question by analyzing the prescription behavior of … physicians who are allowed to dispense drugs themselves through onsite pharmacies. Using administrative data comprising over 16 …

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Do financial incentives alter physician prescription behavior? : evidence from random patient-GP allocations

Ahammer, Alexander; Zilic, Ivan - 2017 - This version: March 29, 2017

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Primary care availability affects antibiotic consumption : evidence using unfilled positions in Hungary

Bíró, Anikó; Elek, Petér S. - 2018

Using administrative data from Hungary, we analyse the effect of general practitioner (GP) care availability on the consumption of antibiotics. We exploit the geographical and time variation in unfilled GP positions as a source of exogenous variation in the availability of primary care....

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Hospitals and the generic versus brand-name prescription decision in the outpatient sector

Pruckner, Gerald J.; Schober, Thomas - 2016

in hospital treatment and heterogeneity in physicians' adherence to hospital choices. The spillover effects create cost …

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The impact of physician preferences and patient habits on the diffusion of new drugs

Johannesson, Magnus (contributor); … - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource], First version: April, 2001, Rev. August 12, 2002

diuretics and beta-blockers. We use a prescription micro dataset where both patients and physicians can be followed over time …%). -- pharmaceuticals ; physician behavior ; habit formation ; mixed logit estimator …

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