Can information about the value of diagnostic tests improve provider practice and help patients recognize higher … quality of care? In a randomized experiment at public clinics in Mali, health providers and patients received tailored …. Nonetheless, patients were significantly less satisfied with the care they received, driven by those whose prior beliefs did not …

Patients rely on medical care providers to act in their best interests because providers understand disease pathology … and appropriate treatment much better than patients. Providers, however, not only give advice (diagnose) but also deliver … the appropriateness of care using data from an audit study that employed standardized patients (SP) who were trained to …

. For patients with diagnoses of Pneumonia or Acute Myocardial Infarction, an additional day in the hospital could decrease … reducing mortality rates far exceed the cost of keeping these patients in the hospital for an additional day … as important indicators of hospital quality. Concerns have been raised, however, as to whether post-discharge mortality …

cream skimming, i.e., choosing patients for some characteristic(s) other than their need for care, which enhances the … estimates of hospital ownership type consist of the impact of differential patient case mix (selection) and hospital cost … likely to treat high-cost patients than not-for-profit (NFP) hospitals, showing no evidence that FP hospitals engage in cream …

to recommend life-sustaining treatments for patients with dementia, especially after personal exposure. Second … unwanted life-extending treatments for patients without dementia. Third, in scenarios where the patient's wishes were unclear … improved communication and decision-making processes for patients with cognitive impairment and highlight the importance of …

and reduced in-hospital mortality, suggesting an improvement in timely care-seeking behavior among high-risk patients. Our …We study how reminding high-risk patients with chronic disease of their upcoming primary care appointments impacts … before preventative care appointments to over 300,000 patients with type 2 diabetes and hypertension across 315 public …

changes in social stigma. Using data on all hospital visits in New Jersey from 2008-2019, we investigate two inflection points …

Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine among adolescent patients, and speeds recovery from a media-induced crisis to perceived HPV vaccine … safety. We also demonstrate that providers affect decisions beyond those of their own patients, influencing uptake for … patients' younger cousins affiliated with other providers by about one-quarter as much as own patients …