physicians prescribing behavior and the physician-patient relationship. We conduct an audit study in which a pair of simulated … expenditures. Such knowledge also increases physicians' information provision about possible side effects, but has a negative …

years after UCC entry. The number of emergency room visits that result in a hospital admission also increases by 3.7 percent …. In contrast, there is no change in the number of ER visits that do not result in admission to hospital, in visits to … physicians outside a UCC, or in imaging and tests. Overall, these results provide little evidence that UCCs replace costly ER …