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 …

effectiveness of these incentives, however, depends both on physicians' price sensitivity and their knowledge of patient prices. We … information. Applying this model to diabetes care, we find that physicians lack detailed price information and are more price …-elastic than full-information models imply. We predict that providing physicians detailed information on prices at the point 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 …

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 …