Well-Informed Choices? Effects of Information Interventions in Primary Care on Care Quality

Arbeitspapier

Market frictions, such as imperfect information or hassle costs, may reduce benefits from market incentives in healthcare settings. We use data from two randomised policy interventions in a Swedish region, which improved the access to provider information and reduced the switching costs of one percent of the adult population and of a sample of new residents. We examine the effects of the interventions on a large number of clinical process quality measures, access to care, and adverse health events, measured at the individual level. We find no significant effect of the interventions on any of the quality measures.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 2022:2

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Information and Uncertainty: Other ; Analysis of Health Care Markets
• Subject: Market frictions ; Field experiment ; Care quality ; Primary care ; Sweden

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Anell, Anders ; Dietrichson, Jens ; Ellegård, Lina Maria ; Kjellsson, Gustav
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics
• (where): Lund
• (when): 2022

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/260341
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET