condition for designing effective policies is to identify who drives antibiotic treatment decisions, physicians or patient …

condition for designing effective policies is to identify who drives antibiotic treatment decisions, physicians or patient …

Consumerism arises when patients acquire and use medical information from sources other than their physicians. This …, consumerism may harm other consumerists, non-consumerists, or both. Data from a large national survey of physicians confirm the … physicians …

This paper examines how physicians in China respond to a pay-for-performance scheme that mismeasures performance. In … to decrease drug expenditure. Using a unique patient-level data from a large Chinese hospital, I find that physicians … inducement hypothesis as physicians in China may receive under-the-counter commission for prescribing certain drugs. I also find …

drive more and more physicians out of the system, it's time for Congress to allow private contracting to play a … nonparticipating physicians, expand the scope of Medigap coverage to include services not covered by Medicare, and liberalize the rules … for opt-out physicians …

Team physicians for professional sports franchises face a conflict of interest created by the competing loyalties they … owe to the team that employs them and to the athlete patient they must treat. Marketing agreements under which physicians … marketing arrangements call into question the independent judgment of team physicians and cause players to question the quality …

: the number of physicians in the physician's group (if any); the physician's integration with or employment by a hospital … or hospital system; and the average age of the other physicians in the physician's group. We present three key findings …. First, all else held constant, group physicians prescribe far fewer opioids, and prescribe them more appropriately, than do …