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SynthesisThe European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care2024

Looking inside the lab: a systematic literature review of economic experiments in health service provision.

Massimo Finocchiaro Castro, Calogero Guccio, Domenica Romeo

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Synthesis in The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Massimo Finocchiaro CastroDepartment of Law, Economics and Humanities, Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6598-204X
Calogero GuccioDepartment of Economics and Business, University of Catania, Corso Italia 55, 95123, Catania, Italy. guccio@unict.it.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1053-4968
Domenica RomeoDepartment of Economics and Business, University of Catania, Corso Italia 55, 95123, Catania, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4932-7835

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Experimental economics is, nowadays, a well-established approach to investigate agents' behavior under economic incentives. In the last decade, a fast-growing number of studies have focused on the application of experimental methodology to health policy issues. The results of that stream of literature have been intriguing and strongly policy oriented. However, those findings are scattered between different health-related topics, making it difficult to grasp the overall state-of-the-art. Hence, to make the main contributions understandable at a glance, we conduct a systematic literature review of laboratory experiments on the supply of health services. Of the 1248 articles retrieved from 2011, 56 articles published in peer-review journals have met our inclusion criteria. Thus, we have described the experimental designs of each of the selected papers and we have classified them according to their main area of interest.

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Delivery of Health CareHealth PolicyHumansResearch DesignHealth policyLaboratory experimentsPayment systemsPhysicians’ behaviorSupply of health servicesSystematic literature review

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PMID38212554
PMCPMC11377526

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