ArticleEconomic journal (London, England)2017
Does Quality Affect Patients' Choice of Doctor? Evidence from England.
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37 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Motivation and competition in health care.Health economics · 2022Article
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- The Lancet Global Health Commission on financing primary health care: putting people at the centre.The Lancet. Global health · 2022Review
- Optimal information disclosure strategy in the primary healthcare service market: From the perspective of signaling theory.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Choice, quality and patients' experience: evidence from a Finnish physiotherapy service.International journal of health economics and management · 2021Article
- The impact of quality on hospital choice. Which information affects patients' behavior for colorectal resection or knee replacement?Health care management science · 2021Article
- Status and Factors Associated with Healthcare Choices among Older Adults and Children in an Urbanized County: A Cross-Sectional Study in Kunshan, China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
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Abstract
Reforms giving users of public services choice of provider aim to improve quality. But such reforms will work only if quality affects choice of provider. We test this crucial prerequisite in the English health care market by examining the choice of 3.4 million individuals of family doctor. Family doctor practices provide primary care and control access to non-emergency hospital care, the quality of their clinical care is measured and published and care is free. In this setting, clinical quality should affect choice. We find that a 1 standard deviation increase in clinical quality would increase practice size by around 17%.
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