Patient movements and practice attractiveness

Giuliano Masiero ()

Departmental Working Papers from Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods at Università degli Studi di Milano

Abstract: This paper examines the interaction of various factors in a patient's decision to switch practices and patient removals by GPs. Practice quality attributes, together with the form of competition, socioeconomic variables and patients' characteristics are modeled as a ecting patient's choice andremoval from practice. I use data on patients' registrations with general practitioners and practice characteristics over a two-year period from a British Health Authority. The model explains practice attractiveness and predict whether a patient will leave a doctor. Distance from practice together with individual's and socioeconomic characteristics account for creamskimming irrespective of practice purchasing type.

Keywords: Patient; movements.; Patient's; choice.; Quality.; General; practice. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-01-01
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