on RDTs, improving the match between a patient's malaria status and treatment with antimalarials by 15-30 percent … match their true malaria status. The patient information intervention did not affect treatment outcomes or patient … satisfaction and reduced malaria testing. These findings are consistent with highly persistent patient beliefs that translate into …

facilitate adherence with prescription medications has significant positive effects on patient outcomes and health costs even … after controlling for observable and unobservable patient characteristics. Policy interventions aimed at improving this … aspect of physicians' health management styles have important implications for patient outcomes and health care costs …

practice styles affect patient care. In this paper, we estimate the long-lasting effects of PCP practice styles on patient …

provider quality. We use a simple structural model to decompose the improvements in patient outcomes over time. Counterfactual …

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 …-like complaints visits the same physician. Simulated patient A is instructed to ask a question that showcases his/her knowledge of …

most consistent with better patient-doctor communication during the encounter rather than differential quality of doctors …

This paper exploits a sharp reduction in patient cost sharing at age 70 in Japan, using a regression discontinuity …