Team relationships and performance: Evidence from healthcare referral networks

L Agha, KM Ericson, KH Geissler… - Management …, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
We examine the teams that emerge when a primary care physician (PCP) refers patients to
specialists. When PCPs concentrate their specialist referrals—for instance, by sending their …

The impact of organizational boundaries on health care coordination and utilization

L Agha, KM Ericson, X Zhao - American Economic Journal: Economic …, 2023 - aeaweb.org
We measure organizational concentration—the distribution of a patient's health care across
organizations—to examine how firm boundaries affect health care efficiency. First, when …

Team formation and performance: Evidence from healthcare referral networks

How does team-specific capital affect productivity? We examine the teams that primary care
physicians (PCPs) assemble when referring patients to specialists. Our theoretical model …

Differences in referral patterns for rural primary care physicians from 2005 to 2016

KH Geissler - Health services research, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To examine differences in referral patterns in a nationally representative sample
between primary care physicians (PCP) practicing in rural vs nonrural areas and changes …

[HTML][HTML] Return to sender: Unraveling the role of structural and social network ties in patient sharing networks

D Westra, P Makai, R Kemp - Social Science & Medicine, 2024 - Elsevier
Healthcare is increasingly delivered through networks of organizations. Well-structured
patient sharing networks are known to have positive associations with the quality of …

Physician referrals during prenatal care

KH Geissler, J Pearlman, LB Attanasio - Maternal and child health journal, 2021 - Springer
Objective Referrals are an important component of patient care, and have been increasing
over time. During pregnancy, people have intensive contact with the healthcare system, but …

The association between patient sharing network structure and healthcare costs

KH Geissler, B Lubin, KMM Ericson - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Study question While physician relationships (measured through shared patients) are
associated with clinical and utilization outcomes, the extent to which this is driven by local or …

Beyond patient-sharing: Comparing physician-and patient-induced networks

E Kesternich, O Rank - Health Care Management Science, 2022 - Springer
The sharing of patients reflects collaborative relationships between various healthcare
providers. Patient-sharing in the outpatient sector is influenced by both physicians' activities …

Primary care physician referral patterns for behavioral health diagnoses

KH Geissler, JE Zeber - Psychiatric Services, 2020 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: This study examined whether visits to primary care physicians (PCPs) by patients
with a primary behavioral health diagnosis were more likely to be associated with referral to …

Patterns and determinants of patient sharing in end-of-life health services: Empirical evidence from the Italian National Health Service

L Giorgio, R Grilli, D Mascia, M Vicentini… - … Journal of Healthcare …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT End-of-life (EoL) care is critical for cancer patients, who tend to have high
service needs that are dispersed across organizations and different levels of care. Although …