Arbeitspapier

Patient Choice, Entry, and the Quality of Primary Care: Evidence from Swedish Reforms

Policies aimed to spur quality competition among health care providers are ubiquitous, but their impact on quality is ex ante ambiguous. This study contributes to the sparse empirical literature on primary care quality by examining the heterogeneous impact of recent competition enhancing reforms in Sweden. The reforms led to substantially more entry of new providers in more exposed markets, but the effects on primary care quality in these markets were modest: we find small improvements of patients' overall satisfaction with care, but no consistently significant effects on avoidable hospitalization rates or satisfaction with access to care.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper ; No. 2016:36

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Microeconomic Policy: Formulation, Implementation, and Evaluation
State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions
Analysis of Health Care Markets
Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Thema
Competition
Patient choice
Primary health care
Quality

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Dietrichson, Jens
Ellegård, Lina Maria
Kjellsson, Gustav
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics
(wo)
Lund
(wann)
2018

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Dietrichson, Jens
  • Ellegård, Lina Maria
  • Kjellsson, Gustav
  • Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics

Entstanden

  • 2018

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