Hospital Choice of Rural Medicare Beneficiaries: Patient, Hospital Attributes, and the Patient-Physician Relationship
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
The Impact of the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program on Patient Choice∗
This paper seeks to understand the impact of the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility (Flex) Program on rural resident hospital choice. The program created a new class of hospital, the Critical Access Hospital (CAH), which receives more generous reimbursement in return for limiting its beds and services. The program’s goal is to maintain access to hospital care. Estimates from a patient choice m...
متن کاملRelationship Between Physician and Hospital Procedure Volume and Mortality After Carotid Artery Stenting Among Medicare Beneficiaries.
BACKGROUND Clinical trials demonstrated the efficacy of carotid artery stenting (CAS) relative to carotid endarterectomy when performed by physicians with demonstrated proficiency. It is unclear how CAS performance may be influenced by the diversity in CAS and non-CAS provider volumes in routine clinical practice. METHODS AND RESULTS We linked Medicare claims to the Centers for Medicare and M...
متن کامل4 Patient choice of hospital
Patient choice is not new to the National Health Service (NHS). The nationalisation of hospitals at the founding of the NHS made it possible for a patient to go to any NHS hospital with a referral from a general practitioner (GP). In practice, however, GPs made these decisions on behalf of their patients and, for the majority of the 60-odd years since the inception of the NHS, patient flows to ...
متن کاملPatient Satisfaction with Physician Assistant, Nurse Practitioner, and Physician Care: A National Survey of Medicare Beneficiaries
• Objective: To assess the extent to which the experiences of older patients vary according to type of primary care provider (ie, physician assistant [PA], nurse practitioner [NP], or physician). • Design: National, cross-sectional survey. • Participants: Medicare beneficiaries completing the 2000 and 2001 Medicare fee-for-service Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Survey who identified a prim...
متن کاملThe patient-physician relationship, primary care attributes, and preventive services.
BACKGROUND The importance of a sustained relationship between patients and physicians is a defining characteristic of family medicine. This study examined whether there is an association among the length of the patient-physician relationship, various attributes of primary care, and the delivery of clinical preventive services to Medicare beneficiaries. METHODS The data source for this study w...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Health Services Research
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0017-9124,1475-6773
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2004.00324.x