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The Redesign of the Matching Market for American Physicians : Some Engineering Aspects of Economic Design
Roth, Alvin E. - 1999
fills approximately 20,000 jobs for new physicians in the United States. Because that market exhibits many complementarities …
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Doing More with Less : Predicting Primary Care Provider Effectiveness
Currie, Janet M.; Zhang, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
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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Doctors' and Nurses' Social Media Ads Reduced Holiday Travel and COVID-19 Infections : A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
Breza, Emily; Stanford, Fatima Cody; Alsan, Marcella; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
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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The Effects of Becoming a Physician on Prescription Drug Use and Mental Health Treatment
Anderson, D. Mark; Diris, Ron; Montizaan, Raymond; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794564
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Gender Differences in Medical Evaluations : Evidence from Randomly Assigned Doctors
Cabral, Marika; Dillender, Marcus - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794569
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Lobbying Physicians : Payments from Industry and Hospital Procurement of Medical Devices
Bergman, Alon; Grennan, Matthew; Swanson, Ashley - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
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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Physician Group Influences on Treatment Intensity and Health : Evidence from Physician Switchers
Doyle, Joseph J.; Staiger, Becky - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794640
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Alternative Compensation Arrangements and Productive Efficiency in Partnerships : Evidence from Medical Group Practice
Gaynor, Martin - 1987
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012476899
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Pricing and Location of Physician Services in Mental Health
Frank, Richard G. - 1984
Puzzling results of a positive association between the number of physicians per capita and the level of fees for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477572
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Distributions of Family Hospital and Physician Expenses
Friedman, Bernard - 1980
The paper develops frequency distribution of annual health expense for a variety of family compositions. The basic data resource was a sample of claims for a large group of federal employees in 1977. The primary data were compared in several aspects against three other sources of reference data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478626