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 in the form of visits by pharmaceutical representatives (known as detailing) and drug samples provided to physicians … may play a role in raising healthcare costs and may unduly affect physicians' prescribing habits towards more expensive … detailing impacts physicians' prescribing behaviors. Specifically, we examine prescriptions and promotion for a particular drug …

-lowering statins) to study the responses of physicians and patients to variation in the cost of drugs. In a sample of first-time statin …-income patients. Our analysis suggests that physicians can perceive the adherence elasticity of their patients and adjust their …, we present suggestive evidence that physicians learn about a patient's price sensitivity through their own experience of …

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 …

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 …

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

In a pervasive but controversial practice, drug firms frequently make monetary or in-kind payments to physicians in the … physician-drug combination. In an event study, we show that physicians increase prescribing of drugs for which they receive … payments in the months just after payment receipt, with no evidence of differential trends between paid and unpaid physicians …

Consumerism arises when patients acquire and use medical information from sources apart from their physicians, such as … cases harms both consumerist and ordinary patients. Data from a large national survey of physicians shows that high levels …