reform increases physician supply and access to care. However, the degree to which marginal changes in malpractice liability … inelastic, then tort reform will not affect physicians' net income or location decisions. I use county-level, specialty …-specific annual counts of physicians from 1970 to 2000 to estimate the effect of damage caps on physician supply. The results suggest …

We assess the potential for medical liability forces to deter medical errors and improve health care treatment quality …, identifying liability’s influence by drawing on variations in the manner by which states formulate the negligence standard facing … physicians. Using hospital discharge records from the National Hospital Discharge Survey and clinically-validated quality metrics …

discover diferential treatment styles driven by physicians' perceived liability risk among patients with a diferent critical … attitude drives physicians' perceived liability risk and consequent defensive behaviour among obstetricians/gynaecologists and …Objective By manipulating patients' critical attitude in a video experiment, we examined whether physicians are more …

This paper examines how physicians in China respond to a pay-for-performance scheme that mismeasures performance. In … to decrease drug expenditure. Using a unique patient-level data from a large Chinese hospital, I find that physicians … inducement hypothesis as physicians in China may receive under-the-counter commission for prescribing certain drugs. I also find …

drive more and more physicians out of the system, it's time for Congress to allow private contracting to play a … nonparticipating physicians, expand the scope of Medigap coverage to include services not covered by Medicare, and liberalize the rules … for opt-out physicians …

In this paper, we explore the sensitivity in the clinical decisions of physicians to the standards of care expected of … them under the law, drawing on the abandonment by states over time of rules holding physicians to standards determined by …

condition for designing effective policies is to identify who drives antibiotic treatment decisions, physicians or patient …

condition for designing effective policies is to identify who drives antibiotic treatment decisions, physicians or patient …

condition for designing effective policies is to identify who drives antibiotic treatment decisions, physicians or patient …