Increasing attention has been paid in recent years to the problem of “too much medicine”,
whereby patients receive unnecessary investigations and treatments providing them with …

Importance The increased number of stroke centers in the United States may not be
equitably distributed across all populations. Anecdotal reports suggest there may be …

Unintended overpayment of some services, in combination with other market factors, is
driving increased use of expensive care, which in turn could be an important driver of health …

We provide early evidence that healthcare consumers plan to play a more active role in their
healthcare through the use of a patient-centric information tool---the Personal Health Record …

Objective. To describe how the organization and dynamics of health systems changed
between 1999 and 2001, in the context of expectations from the mid‐1990s when managed …

This study examines the underutilization of rural hospitals. The authors study hospital and
patient characteristics to determine why and how rural patients bypass local rural hospitals …

The literature on hospital competition and quality is young; most empirical studies have
focused on few conditions and outcomes. Measures of in-hospital mortality and …

BACKGROUND:: Conventional economic principles suggest that increases in competition
are associated with price decreases. The purpose of this study is to determine whether this …

In retail and health care markets, demand declines with geographic distance to the
establishment, but either transport costs or preferences correlated with distance ('home …

The rapid diffusion of medical technologies is widely recognized as a key driver of
healthcare cost escalation. The excessive duplication of technologies gives rise to the so …