sensitive conditions we find that health IT adoption reduces mortality for the most complex patients but does not affect … components. The benefits from health IT are primarily experienced by patients whose diagnoses require cross-specialty care …

Denmark over seven years to analyze the contributions of doctor-, patient-, and drug-specific factors to the adherence …

Overuse of medical care is often attributed to an informed expert problem, whereby doctors induce patients to purchase … unnecessary treatments. Alternatively, patients may drive overuse of medications by exerting pressure on doctors to overprescribe … randomized trial to identify the importance of patients in driving overuse of antimalarials in community health clinics in Mali …

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

patients, providers and the economy. We find strong evidence that the ACA's provisions have increased insurance coverage. There …

substantially across physicians and was highly stable for individual physicians. Patients of physicians in the 75th versus 25th …

. For patients with diagnoses of Pneumonia or Acute Myocardial Infarction, an additional day in the hospital could decrease … reducing mortality rates far exceed the cost of keeping these patients in the hospital for an additional day …

plausibly exogenous variation in the mix of physicians available to treat patients when they are admitted to the hospital via … rankings, sex, years of experience, and patient volume. The main finding is that when heart failure patients enter the hospital …

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 …