Incentives In Primary Care and Their Impact on Potentially Avoidable Hospital Admissions
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Paper provided by Dipartimento Scienze Economiche, Universita' di Bologna in its series Working Papers with number 660.Length:
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- Gianluca Fiorentini & Elisa Iezzi & Matteo Lippi Bruni & Cristina Ugolini, 2011. "Incentives in primary care and their impact on potentially avoidable hospital admissions," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer, vol. 12(4), pages 297-309, August.
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- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
- C31 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions; Social Interaction Models
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- Fiorentini, Gianluca & Lippi Bruni, Matteo & Ugolini, Cristina, 2013. "GPs and hospital expenditures. Should we keep expenditure containment programs alive?," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 82(C), pages 10-20.
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"Does better disease management in primary care reduce hospital costs? Evidence from English primary care,"
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- E. Iezzi & M. Lippi Bruni & C. Ugolini, 2011. "The role of GP’s compensation schemes in diabetes care: evidence from panel data," Working Papers wp766, Dipartimento Scienze Economiche, Universita' di Bologna.
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