This paper summarizes a randomized experiment to study the effects of an Internet-based intervention on type 2 diabetes … patients in Montevideo, Uruguay. A specially designed website and electronic social network allowed participants to navigate … participants' knowledge, behavior, or health outcomes. Only a minority of patients logged on to the website, and most were only …

due to chronic diseases which are amenable to primary and secondary prevention. In a field experiment in Oakland …

quality of care In a randomized experiment at public clinics in Mali, health providers and patients received tailored …Can information about the value of diagnostic tests improve provider practice and help patients recognize higher …. Nonetheless, patients were significantly less satisfied with the care they received, driven by those whose prior beliefs did not …

an experiment in Oakland, California, we randomize black men to black or non-black male medical doctors. We use a two …

quality of care? In a randomized experiment at public clinics in Mali, health providers and patients received tailored …Can information about the value of diagnostic tests improve provider practice and help patients recognize higher …. Nonetheless, patients were significantly less satisfied with the care they received, driven by those whose prior beliefs did not …