General medical care in the United States has historically been provided by physicians who care for their patients in … both ambulatory and hospital settings. Care is now increasingly divided between physicians specializing in hospital care … (hospitalists) and ambulatory-based care primary care physicians. We develop and find strong empirical support for a theoretical …

) incentives on the provision of targeted primary care services, and whether physicians' responses differ by age, practice size and … nearly all the services provided by practicing primary care physicians in Ontario. With an individual-level data set of … physicians, we employ a difference-in-differences approach that controls for both "selection on observables" and "selection on …

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 …

Physicians prescribing drugs for patients with schizophrenia and related conditions are remarkably concentrated in …'s "favorite" varied widely across physicians, i.e. physician prescribing concentration patterns are diverse. Building on Frank and …,652 physicians from IMS Health, we evaluate these predictions empirically. While physician prescribing behavior is generally quite …

other factors that inhibit effective integration between hospitals and physicians. Compounding these problems are patterns … of medical specialization that complicate coordination among physicians. We conclude by considering the policy …

Program, physicians decreased the number of hours spent with patients, but increased their participation in the expanded …

patients actively demanding antibiotics, by physicians believing that patients want antibiotics, or by physicians believing …