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Description:: Correlation of Antimicrobial Prescription Rate and Socioeconomic Status- Background: Excessive antimicrobial agent usage plays a key role in antimicrobial resistance. Objective: To examine whether socioeconomic …
Year:: 2018
Contributor:: Volpi, Connor Ryan (creator); Mylonakis, Eleftherios (Advisor); Gravenstein, Stefan (Reader); Brown University. School of Public Health (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Antibiotics Resistance; health disparities; Medicare; Social status; Drugs (Prescription drugs)
Collection:: Public Health; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Inefficiency and fragmentation in the delivery of services are issues that plague health care in the United States. The Institute of Medicine estimates that as …
Year:: 2013
Contributor:: Jung, Hye-Young (creator); Mor, Vincent (Director); Trivedi, Amal (Reader); Chay, Kenneth (Reader); Grabowski, David (Reader); Brown University. Health Services Research (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: coordination of care; dually-eligible; Medicare; Medicaid
Collection:: Health Services, Policy & Practice; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: This dissertation examines the effects of health care policy on access to health care and health outcomes, use of medical technology, and educational attainment. The …
Year:: 2012
Contributor:: Kim, Daeho (creator); Chay, Kenneth (Director); Aizer, Anna (Reader); Knight, Brian (Reader); Brown University. Economics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Health Care Policy; Prospective Payment System; Hospital Desegregation; Medical policy; Medicare; Medical technology; Educational attainment
Collection:: Economics; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: This dissertation examines the influence of Medicare's reimbursement structure on the observed behavior of healthcare providers. Specifically, it studies how hospitals respond to Medicare's disjointed …
Year:: 2016
Contributor:: Elzinga, Andrew Thomas (creator); Oster, Emily (Director); Aizer, Anna (Reader); Chay, Kenneth (Reader); Knight, Brian (Reader); Brown University. Economics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Healthcare; Correlated Random Effects; Medical policy; Medicare
Collection:: Economics; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Short inpatient hospital stays (i.e., two days or fewer) have long been an area of emphasis for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) …
Year:: 2018
Contributor:: Silver, Benjamin Chase (creator); Mor, Vincent (Advisor); Rahman, Momotazur (Reader); Gozalo, Pedro (Reader); Besdine, Richard (Reader); Wright, Brad (Reader); Brown University. Department of Health Services, Policy and Practice (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Medical policy; Medicare; Hospitals; Hospitals--Observation units
Collection:: Health Services, Policy & Practice; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: As policymakers develop strategies for managing health care quality and spending, Medicare beneficiaries who are dually enrolled in Medicaid merit close attention. Designing effective policies …
Year:: 2016
Contributor:: Keohane, Laura M. (creator); Mor, Vincent (Director); Trivedi, Amal (Reader); Aizer, Anna (Reader); Swartz, Katherine (Reader); Brown University. Health Services Research (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: cost-sharing; Medicare; Medicaid
Collection:: Health Services, Policy & Practice; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Preventable hospitalizations have garnered a significant amount of attention among researchers and policymakers. Although most hospitalizations are medically necessary, the large amount of geographic variation …
Year:: 2012
Contributor:: Unruh, Mark A (creator); Mor, Vincent (Director); Trivedi, Amal (Reader); Chay, Kenneth (Reader); Grabowski, David (Reader); Brown University. Health Services Research (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: hospitalization; rehospitalization; Medicare; Medicaid
Collection:: Health Services, Policy & Practice; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: This dissertation comprises three chapters studying how the healthcare system and health policies work. Chapter 1 examines the effects of primary care physicians' (PCP) retirement …
Year:: 2019
Contributor:: Zhang, Xuan (creator); Aizer, Anna (Advisor); Oster, Emily (Reader); Shapiro, Jesse (Reader); Brown University. Department of Economics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Children; Economic policy; Medicaid; Medicare; Aging; Health insurance; Technological innovations--Economic aspects
Collection:: Economics; Theses and Dissertations

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