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 …

systems. One explanation for these variations is differences in medical practice styles; that is, physicians may develop their … data set from Upper Austria to study the practice styles among primary care physicians. We decompose the use of healthcare …

systems. One explanation for these variations is differences in medical practice styles; that is, physicians may develop their … data set from Upper Austria to study the practice styles among primary care physicians. We decompose the use of healthcare …

exploit patient mobility between physicians to identify practice styles among general practitioners (GPs) in Austria. We use a …

Physicians and pharmacists in Taiwan both prescribed and dispensed drugs; many elderly people considered the two types … citizens and a separation policy (SP) that forbids physicians from dispensing and pharmacists from prescribing drugs. I find … visited pharmacists become more likely to also visit physicians after NHI was implemented. On the other hand, through legal …

of the market for physicians' services over 1983-91. Our estimated index of market power indicates nontrivial power among … physicians. This suggests that conventional policy tools could reduce costs in this market. This, in turn, could effectively …

effects on hospital exits and health outcomes. Although physicians play a central role in determining the performance of a … natural experiment. Based on panel data covering all physicians in Japan, we find that the introduction of a new residency … program substantially decreased the supply of physicians in some rural markets where local hospitals had relied on university …

If medical malpractice reform affects the supply of physicians, the effects will be concentrated in specialties facing … Malpractice Reform Help States Retain Physicians and Does it Matter?" …

The share of female physicians has risen in OECD countries in recent decades, but we know little about the effects of …