Physician Payment Mechanisms, Hospital Length of Stay and Risk of Readmission: a Natural Experiment
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- Damien Échevin & Bernard Fortin, 2011. "Physician Payment Mechanisms, Hospital Length of Stay and Risk of Readmission: a Natural Experiment," Cahiers de recherche 1112, CIRPEE.
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Keywords
Physician payment mechanisms; mixed compensation; hospital length of stay; risk of re-hospitalisation; duration model; natural experiment.; Mécanismes de rémunération des médecins; rémunération mixte; durée du séjour à de l'hôpital de séjour; risque de re-hospitalisation.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
- I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
- C41 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Duration Analysis; Optimal Timing Strategies
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HEA-2011-05-14 (Health Economics)
- NEP-HRM-2011-05-14 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-IAS-2011-05-14 (Insurance Economics)
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