The paper reviews models of the physician-patient relationship to derive testable hypotheses about the relation between … health, demand for medical services and patient's compliance. The models imply that in addition to existing information … asymmetries the actions that physician and patient choose affect the results of medical care. We estimate an orderd probit model …

The relationship between physician and patient has been discussed intensively in the literature. Nevertheless, they … influenced by the patient's compliance. We present a model of medical treatment in which both the actions of physician and … patient are modelled as a productive input. The consequences of a mutual asymmetric information about these inputs result in …

diuretics and beta-blockers. We use a prescription micro dataset where both patients and physicians can be followed over time … - an important feature since it allows us to study the impact of physician preferences and patient habits on the choice of … patient habit formation which slows down the diffusion of new drugs. Without habit effects the market share of calcium …

We study patient choice of healthcare provider based on both objective and subjective quality measures in the context … of maternal care hospital services in Germany. Objective measures are obtained from publicly reported clinical indicators …, while subjective measures are based on satisfaction scores from a large and nationwide patient survey. We merge both quality …

dependent variable. An analysis of a 1997 health care reform in Germany shows the benefit of the approach: lower quantiles, such …

effect of a 4.4 percent reduction of the number of doctor visits in a sample of pharmacy customers. The re-evaluation based …