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The relationship between physician and patient has been discussed intensively in the literature. Nevertheless, they neglect the fact that the production of health not only depends on the medical services supplied by the physician but is also influenced by the patient's compliance. We present a...
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signals are private information of the physicians. Welfare optimizing contracts can call for a markup either to the PCP for …
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We develop a rational expectations model of placebo effects. If subjects in seemingly-ideal single-stage RCTs form rational beliefs about breakthroughs based upon personal physiological responses, mental effects differ across medications received, treatment versus control. Consequently, the...
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Introduction: Until recently, adjuvant treatment options for higher stage resectable cutaneous melanoma were limited. Two studies with a similar set-up, published 2017, led to registration of targeted therapy for BRAF-mutated melanoma with dabrafenib and trametinib as well as of the...
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Physicians are traditionally liable under a negligence rule of liability. Economic analysis of liability rules … physicians is sued per year. These discrepancies between the theory and actual operation of the negligence system arise primarily … incentives for physicians to practice defensive medicine and incentives for plaintiffs and defendants to invest in litigation …
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