To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette. Sir,?Having read the letter by Dr. D. M. Vasavada in your issue for October 1930 on intravenous quinine, j. am prompted to write to you to emphasise the value o intramuscular injections of quinine in malaria. TllC intramuscular injection is not followed by the fall i11 blood-pressure which occurs with intravenous injeC" lions, the method is easy and sa...

Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty, henceforth (PTCA) for patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI)—a high-tech treatment—is more frequently used in Japan than in other developed countries. This paper adopts the two-phase model to examine whether the high PTCA use is driven by the self-interest of physicians, or by behavioral character. After controlling for a patient’s detail...

The aim of this article is to present the application of a strategic map for hospital management. The main hypothesis is, that strategic map for a hospital should differ from the classical one by Kaplan & Norton due to different priorities hospital work specificity as such. The main finding is that financial perspective is fundamental, basic for hospital activity. In hospital “X” strategic map,...

Using panel data from a large hospital system, this paper presents estimates of the productivity effects of human capital in a team production environment. Proxying nurses’ general human capital by education and their unit-specific human capital by experience on the nursing unit, we find that greater amounts of both types of human capital significantly improve patient outcomes. Disruptions to t...

Patient hospital choice reform in Norway was introduced in 2001. Waiting times for treatments at hospitals were published, and patients and their physicians were able to select hospitals for services. We develop a model of patient response, and study the empirical impact of the reform. Our data set consists of hospital admission information between 1999 and 2005, as well as hospital and area ch...

The inhibitory effect of high-titre preparations of phage 47 on certain strains of Staphylococcus aureus belonging to phage group I11 was produced with a phage: cell ratio of approximately 1 : 1. Staphylococci showing inhibition by preparations of phage 47 were converted to phage sensitivity by lysogenization with a phage derived from a strain sensitive to phage 47. Multiplication of phage 47 i...

We examine the response of Medicare Advantage contracts to published quality ratings. We identify the effect of star ratings on premiums using a regression discontinuity design that exploits plausibly random variation around rating thresholds. We find that 3, 3.5, and 4-star contracts in 2009 significantly increased their 2010 monthly premiums by $20 or more relative to contracts just below the...

We examine whether the Colombian government’s expansion of publicly provided health insurance in the early nineties created incentives for people to become informal. Using variation in the onset of the Census of the Poor across municipalities and over time, we find robust and consistent estimates of an increase in informal employment between 2 and 5 percentage points after the expansion. As rob...

This paper estimates the health returns to schooling, using a twin design. For this purpose, I use data on monozygotic twins from the Midlife in the United States survey. The results suggest that completing high school improves health, as measured through self-reported health, chronic conditions, and exercise behavior, but that additional schooling does not lead to additional health gains. Cont...

We estimate a semi-parametric model of health production process using a two-stage approach for OECD countries. By regressing data envelopment analysis output efficiency scores on non-discretionary variables, both using Tobit analysis and a single and double bootstrap procedure, we show that inefficiency is strongly related to GDP per head, the education level, and health behaviour such as obes...