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The Impact of Death-Related Costs on Health Care Expenditure: A Survey. ENEPRI Research Reports No. 17, 1 February 2006 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
In the economic policy debate it is often stated that population ageing will lead to huge increases in the age-related components of public expenditure – primarily pensions and health care.
Raitano, Michele.
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Nurses´ reports on rationed nursing care in selected private hospitals: Preliminary results [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Research Development in Nursing and Midwifery
Background: The phenomenon of rationed nursing care represents a global problem that jeopardizes the provision of quality and safe care. To date, there are a limited number of studies that focus on the occurrence of this phenomenon in the private care ...
Dominika Kohanová   +2 more
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Multitasking, Competition and Provider Payment [PDF]

open access: yes
Many important dimensions of quality health care are difficult to observe, monitor, and motivate. This paper examines how competition among providers interacts with payment system incentives when the allocation of provider effort among multiple such ...
Karen Eggleston
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Allocating Vote: Health — ‘Needs Assessment’ and an Economics-Based Approach [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper critiques 'needs assessment' as a basis for allocating public funding of health and disability services and discusses an alternative economics-based approach.
Nancy Devlin, Paul Hansen
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"An Ethical Framework for Cost-Effective Medicine: Confronting the Risks in Managed Care" [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper looks at the ethical problems posed by managed care (in particular, at its incentives to physicians to economize on care), and points to a regulatory framework to provide consumer protection. HMO medicine has been effective in controlling once
Walter M. Cadette
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Financial influences and the primacy of patient welfare - an empirical and ethical analysis in German cancer medicine. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Med Ethics
Koenig JFL   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Medicaid Managed Care and Infant Health: A National Evaluation [PDF]

open access: yes
In this study, we examine the effects of Medicaid managed care (MMC) on prenatal care utilization and infant health. We obtain separate estimates of the effect of primary care case management (PCCM) managed care programs and HMO managed care plans on ...
Lisa Dubay   +2 more
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