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physicians' service quality and interpersonal skills, ratings are positively associated with important conventional measures of … clinical quality, including physicians' credentials, their adherence to clinical guidelines, and their patients' risk … on patient flow, measured by physicians' patient revenue and patient volume. By instrumenting for physicians' ratings …
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This analysis has two purposes. The first is to establish that physicians owe their patients a fiduciary duty. Courts … attention, both within and outside the medical profession: the concern that some physicians are failing to disclose medical … help in times of sickness and injury. This Article asserts that physicians’ fiduciary duty to patients encompasses a duty …
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Markov-based and discrete event simulation models are widely used in health economic analysis to estimate the long term effects of treatment on clinical and economic outcomes. However, none of them simultaneously integrate patients' economic resources and their medical decision making in the...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected the United States healthcare system, resulting in major disruptions in the delivery of essential care and causing crippling financial losses that threaten the viability of millions of medical practices. There is little empirical evidence on the types...
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We study the role of physicians in driving geographic variation of US healthcare utilization. We estimate a model that … separates variation in average utilization of Medicare beneficiaries due to physicians, non-physician supply side factors, and … patient demand. The model is identified by migration of patients and physicians across areas, as well as by variation in …
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The asymmetry between the patient as a layman and the physician as an expert is a key element in health economics. However, a change to a higher degree of patient autonomy has taken place. Furthermore, there is a consensus in a positive correlation between general education and productivity of...
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This paper investigates the consequences that patients face when their regular primary care provider closes down her practice, typically due to retirement. We estimate the causal impact of closures on patients' utilization patterns, medical expenditures, hospitalizations, and health plan choice....
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Markets require informed participants to function efficiently. This paper examines the impact of providing targeted information directly to patients on their purchasing-decisions regarding pharmaceutical drugs. We analyze the effect of informational letters sent by a Swiss health insurer to...
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-augmented healthcare delivery systems in view of (1) how physicians integrate AI into their clinical practice and (2) how patients perceive …
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Many Americans fail to get life-saving vaccines each year, and the availability of a vaccine for COVID-19 makes the challenge of encouraging vaccination more urgent than ever. We present a large field experiment (N=47,306) testing 19 nudges delivered to patients via text message and designed to...
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