Introduction This study comprehensively investigates the changes in healthcare utilization among chronic patients with … regular outpatient visits to hospitals after the occurrence of Covid-19. The research examines whether patients altered their … center in Taiwan. The subjects were chronic patients with regular hospital outpatient visits before the Covid-19 outbreak …

patients in a hospital environment. Design/methodology/approach - The research is based on the data collected through the … participant observation method while interviewing patients about the quality of healthcare services in nine community health … centres of the Kashmir division. Thematic analysis was performed on the information collected from patients admitted to …

indicate that patient satisfaction, trust and commitment can create favourable behavioural intentions amongst patients. When … patients reveal higher trust, they are more inclined to value healthcare services and willing to commit to a long … commitment and build a good relationship between service providers and patients. Efforts should be taken to raise the standard of …

costs for patients in the 12 months following on cancer diagnosis and find a large variation in these costs according to the …

information directly to patients on their purchasing-decisions regarding pharmaceutical drugs. We analyze the effect of … substitution probability. Based on 540,000 drug purchases by 60,000 patients we find that the probability of switching to a generic … substantially depend on whether patients face a copayment for their drug purchase and thus personally financially benefit from …

. Patients have little incentive to shop for low-priced alternatives because they do not bear the full cost of their health care … coinsurance. For patients affected by the policy, we find that the likelihood of purchasing a 20% coinsurance drug decreases by 4 …