As most Americans know, conflicts of interest riddle the US health care system. They result
from physicians practicing medicine as entrepreneurs, from physicians' ties to pharma, and …

OBJECTIVES: Some doctors perform the dual roles of prescribing and dispensing
pharmaceuticals. The dispensing doctors (DDs) role may give rise to prescribing behaviours …

Before the recent pharmaceutical reform in Korea that mandates the separation of drug
prescribing and dispensing, physicians and pharmacists both prescribed and dispensed …

The objective of this study is to investigate the implications for organisational performance of
the interplay between ownership and management control system design in professional …

This study examines effects of physician supply and diversity on hospitalization for
ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSH). Data are from 31 metropolitan areas in the …

This paper examines the impact of private prison contracting by exploiting staggered prison
capacity shocks in Mississippi. Motivated by a model based on the typical private prison …

Objetivo: Estudiar los cambios en la utilización de servicios de salud públicos y privados en
México entre 2012 y 2018. Material y métodos: Usamos la Encuesta Nacional de Salud y …

Objectives To compare the sociodemographic characteristics, reasons for attending,
perception of quality and associated out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures of doctors' offices …

Korea recently introduced three major health care reforms: in financing (1999),
pharmaceuticals (2000), and provider payment (2001). In these three reforms, new …

This paper analyzes whether the opportunity for physicians to dispense drugs increases
healthcare expenditures. We study the case of Switzerland, where dispensing physicians …