We ask how patient knowledge of appropriate antibiotic usage affects both physicians prescribing behavior and the … knowledge also increases physicians' information provision about possible side effects, but has a negative impact on the quality … physician-patient relationship. We conduct an audit study in which a pair of simulated patients with identical flu …

In the United States, rural and low-income communities have difficulty attracting and retaining physicians, potentially … adversely impacting health outcomes. With a limited supply of physicians completing medical school at US universities, foreign …-born and educated physicians provide a potential source of supply in underserved areas. For international medical school …

Can information about the value of diagnostic tests improve provider practice and help patients recognize higher … quality of care? In a randomized experiment at public clinics in Mali, health providers and patients received tailored …. Nonetheless, patients were significantly less satisfied with the care they received, driven by those whose prior beliefs did not …

We estimate an insurer-specific preference function which rationalizes hospital referrals for privately-insured births … in California. The function is additively separable in: a hospital price paid by the insurer, the distance traveled, and … plan and severity-specific hospital fixed effects (capturing hospital quality). We use an inequality estimator that allows …

Patients rely on medical care providers to act in their best interests because providers understand disease pathology … and appropriate treatment much better than patients. Providers, however, not only give advice (diagnose) but also deliver … the appropriateness of care using data from an audit study that employed standardized patients (SP) who were trained to …

patient demand. The model is identified by migration of patients and physicians across areas, as well as by variation in … within-area matching. We find that physicians vary greatly in the intensity with which they treat otherwise similar patients …We study the role of physicians in driving geographic variation of US healthcare utilization. We estimate a model that …

styles of primary care physicians significantly affect the health outcomes of their patients. Using data on the population of … statin users in Denmark and matching patients to their primary care physicians, we show that the physician's ability to …A host of different factors affect health and longevity, ranging from genetic endowments to public policy. Physicians …

information and medical knowledge among patients, an enormous number of health policies are focused on patient education. In this … health care service efficacy--i.e., physicians as patients--with a comparable group of non-physician patients, taking various … campaigns. To do so, we compare the care received by a group of patients that should have the best possible information on …

Primary care physicians (PCPs) provide frontline health care to patients in the U.S.; however, it is unclear how their … health care utilization by focusing on Medicare patients affected by PCP relocations or retirements, which we refer to as … "exits." Observing where patients receive care after these exits, we estimate event studies to compare patients who switch to …