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Readmission and Hospital Quality Under Prospective Payment System

Guccio, Calogero - 2014

Nowadays different healthcare policies in OECD countries seem to consider hospital readmission somehow “quality …

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Hirani, Jonas - 2020

While a large literature studies the impact of exposure to early-life investment policies, this paper examines the impact of changes within a program, the Danish nurse home visiting program, on child and maternal health. We exploit variation induced by a nurse strike, which resulted in families...

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An Empirical Analysis of Medicare-Eligible Veterans' Demand for Outpatient Health Care Services

Lahiri, Kajal - 2010

Using data from the 1992 US National Survey of Veterans, we analyze Medicare-eligible veterans' use of VA and non-VA outpatient health care services. We apply a utility consistent, combined multinomial choice and count data model to identify factors that affect these veterans' outpatient health...

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Production factors, productivity dynamics and quality gains as determinants of healthcare spending growth in US hospitals

Contreras, Juan; Patel, Elena; Tristao, Ignez - 2013

in the hospital sector than the one found in manufacturing, with gains coming mainly from within-hospital productivity …

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Changes in hospital efficiency after privatization

Tiemann, Oliver; Schreyögg, Jonas - 2011

We investigated the effects of privatization on hospital efficiency in Germany. To do so, we obtained bootstrapped DEA …-profit status may be an effective way to ensure the scarce resources in the hospital sector are used more efficiently …

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Re-Examining Supplier-Induced Demand in Health Care : Comparisons Among Patients Affiliated and Not Affiliated with Healthcare Professionals in China

Si, Yafei; Zhou, Zhongliang; Chen, Xi - 2021

Doing "more" in healthcare can be a major threat to the delivery of high-quality health care. This study used coarsened exact matching to test the hypothesis of supplier-induced demand (SID) by comparing health care utilization and expenditures between patients affiliated with healthcare...

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Timing matters : the impact of response measures on COVID-19-related hospitalization and death rates in Germany and Switzerland

Huber, Martin; Langen, Henrika - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 156 (2020) 1/10, pp. 1-19

We assess the impact of the timing of lockdown measures implemented in Germany and Switzerland on cumulative COVID-19-related hospitalization and death rates. Our analysis exploits the fact that the epidemic was more advanced in some regions than in others when certain lockdown measures came...

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Improving the Efficiency of Health Care Spending : Selected Evidence on Hospital Performance

Erlandsen, Espen - 2007

There are no ready-made data on hospital outputs and inputs which would allow comprehensive international comparisons … of hospital efficiency to be carried out. This paper, therefore, relies on selected evidence to compare hospital … standard hospital treatments; ii) overall efficiency levels in a set of paired countries; iii) within-country dispersion in …

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Overconfidence and hygiene non-compliance in hospitals

Lima de Miranda, Katharina; Detlefsen, Lena; Stolpe, Michael - 2020

Among measures to fight hospital acquired infections, an emerging epidemic in many countries around the world, adoption … problem, characterized by asymmetric information between hospital management and healthcare workers. In this study, we provide …

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The effect of inpatient user charges on inpatient care

Votapkova, Jana - 2020

The essay assesses the infuence of inpatient user charges in the Czech Republic on the amount of inpatient hospital … to other hospital characteristic. Our treatment group comprises hospitals where patients could ask for reimbursement, i … marginally significant (between 2.7 % and 4.1 %) having controlled for exogenous hospital and regional characteristics. …

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