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fills approximately 20,000 jobs for new physicians in the United States. Because that market exhibits many complementarities …
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This paper uses data from 802,777 veterans assigned to 7,548 primary care providers (PCPs) within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) to examine variations in the efficacy of primary care providers (PCPs), their consequences for health outcomes, and their determinants. Leveraging...
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During the COVID-19 epidemic, many health professionals started using mass communication on social media to relay critical information and persuade individuals to adopt preventative health behaviors. Our group of clinicians and nurses developed and recorded short video messages to encourage...
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There is evidence that physicians disproportionately suffer from substance use disorder and mental health problems. It … increases the use of antidepressants, opioids, anxiolytics, and sedatives, especially for female physicians. Among female …
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While a growing body of evidence documents large gender disparities in health care and related social insurance programs, little is known about what drives these disparities. We leverage administrative data and random assignment of doctors to patients inherent within the workers' compensation...
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firms to physicians and medical device procurement by hospitals. These payments (and the interactions that accompany them …) may facilitate the transfer of valuable information to and from physicians. However, they may also influence physicians …
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Treatment intensity varies remarkably across physicians, yet the key drivers are not well understood. Meanwhile, the … organization of healthcare is undergoing a secular transformation as physicians increasingly work in groups. This paper tests … whether physicians' group affiliation matters for practice styles and patient health. Using Medicare inpatient claims data, we …
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Although the role of the services sector in the economy has grown increasingly large, and partnerships are a prevalent form of organization in this sector, relatively little is known about the behavior and performance of these firms. In this paper an attempt is made to fill that gap by...
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Puzzling results of a positive association between the number of physicians per capita and the level of fees for …
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