Looking inside the lab: a systematic literature review of economic experiments in health service provision.
Health policy
Laboratory experiments
Payment systems
Physicians’ behavior
Supply of health services
Systematic literature review
Journal
The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care
ISSN: 1618-7601
Titre abrégé: Eur J Health Econ
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 101134867
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
11 Jan 2024
11 Jan 2024
Historique:
received:
02
09
2023
accepted:
14
12
2023
medline:
12
1
2024
pubmed:
12
1
2024
entrez:
11
1
2024
Statut:
aheadofprint
Résumé
Experimental economics is, nowadays, a well-established approach to investigate agents' behavior under economic incentives. In the last decade, a fast-growing number of studies have focused on the application of experimental methodology to health policy issues. The results of that stream of literature have been intriguing and strongly policy oriented. However, those findings are scattered between different health-related topics, making it difficult to grasp the overall state-of-the-art. Hence, to make the main contributions understandable at a glance, we conduct a systematic literature review of laboratory experiments on the supply of health services. Of the 1248 articles retrieved from 2011, 56 articles published in peer-review journals have met our inclusion criteria. Thus, we have described the experimental designs of each of the selected papers and we have classified them according to their main area of interest.
Identifiants
pubmed: 38212554
doi: 10.1007/s10198-023-01662-y
pii: 10.1007/s10198-023-01662-y
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Informations de copyright
© 2024. The Author(s).
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