patients’ length of stay in hospital and decrease the incidence of adverse events from surgery, but their effects significantly …

firms to physicians and medical device procurement by hospitals. These payments (and the interactions that accompany them …) may facilitate the transfer of valuable information to and from physicians. However, they may also influence physicians …' treatment decisions, and in turn hospital device procurement, in favor of paying firms. Payments are pervasive: 87 percent of …

factors, which affect cognitive perception, including hedonic and pragmatic aspects. Data were collected from 159 hospital …