Health care markets fail to satisfy many requirements for perfect competition, including large
numbers of consumers and firms, zero search costs, and marketability of all goods and …

Consumer incentives are reflected in a wide range of choices, many of which occur in both
insurance-and tax-financed health care systems. However, health insurance and sick leave …

The Handbook of Health Economics provide an up-to-date survey of the burgeoning
literature in health economics. As a relatively recent subdiscipline of economics, health …

Objective. To examine how patient and hospital attributes and the patient–physician
relationship influence hospital choice of rural Medicare beneficiaries. Data Sources …

Policies that seek to achieve geographic equity in countries with a National Health Services
(NHS) require information on how to change the distribution of supply to achieve greater …

We examine the effects of diverse dimensions of hospital quality–including consumers'
perceptions of unobserved attributes–on future hospital choice. We utilize consumers' stated …

We study patient choice of healthcare provider based on both objective and subjective
quality measures in the context of maternal care hospital services in Germany. Objective …

Abstract Research Objectives To compare and contrast the markets of urban safety-net
(USN) hospitals with the markets of other urban hospitals. Study Design To develop profiles …

Background Rural cancer patients receive lower-quality care and experience worse
outcomes than urban patients. Commission on Cancer (CoC) accreditation requires …

Background and Purpose—The critical access hospital (CAH) designation was established
to provide rural residents with local access to emergency and inpatient care. CAHs …