between firms. We test this in obstetrics markets, relying on random assignment of patients to physicians to generate unbiased …

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

To customize treatments to individual patients entails costs of coordination and cognition. Thus, providers sometimes … choose treatments based on norms for broad classes of patients. We develop behavioral hypotheses explaining when and why …

health care service efficacy—i.e., physicians as patients—with a comparable group of non-physician patients, taking various … 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 …

substantially across physicians and was highly stable for individual physicians. Patients of physicians in the 75th versus 25th …Despite increasing calls for value-based payments, existing methodologies for determining physicians' "value added" to …

plausibly exogenous variation in the mix of physicians available to treat patients when they are admitted to the hospital via … attempts to estimate the types of physicians that improve survival. This paper aims to overcome selection bias by exploiting … the emergency department. One innovation is the construction of proxy measures for the types of physicians available using …

logit. The estimates indicate that insurers with more capitated physicians are more responsive to price. Capitated plans … send patients further to utilize similar-quality lower-priced hospitals; but the cost-quality trade-off does not vary with …

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 …

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 …