Trajectories Matching for Characterizing Patient’s Behavior in Policy Evaluation
Chaohsin Lin,
Shuofen Hsu,
Yu-Hua Yan
Abstract:Background: Economic theory and earlier empirical evidence suggest that patients will use fewer health services when they have to pay more for them. However, that copayment had little or no effect on visits to physicians.Objectives: This study exploits a natural experiment in Taiwan to estimate the effect of an increase in copayment on the demand for physician services and prescription drugs across the different dimensions of age, illness severity and patient behavior.Methods: Data were taken from the National… Show more
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