population of statin-users in Denmark that matches patients to primary care physicians, we show that the impact of a physician …What makes some physicians perform better than others? This paper examines two different channels through which primary …'s clinical quality on patient health outcomes is largely explained by the composition of patients in the physician's practice. In …

health care service efficacy—i.e., physicians as patients—with a comparable group of non-physician patients, taking various … information and medical knowledge among patients, an enormous number of health policies are focused on patient education. In this … campaigns. To do so, we compare the care received by a group of patients that should have the best possible information on …

substantially across physicians and was highly stable for individual physicians. Patients of physicians in the 75th versus 25th …Despite increasing calls for value-based payments, existing methodologies for determining physicians' "value added" to …

,271 interactions between 292 doctors and their patients in 98 clinics and hospitals in Paraguay and conducted an exit-survey with the … same patients as they left the clinic. For a subsample of 64 facilities they also interviewed patients who visited the … patients interviewed at home compared with those interviewed at the clinic. This leads the authors to conclude that even if …

, affects physicians' medical service provision and the quality of care. Using a series of controlled experiments with … physicians and students, we test the incentive effect of performance pay at a within-subject level. A discrete bonus is granted … if a quality threshold is reached, which varies with the patients' severity of illness. We find that performance pay …