Guo, Pengfei; Huang, Fengfeng; Wang, Yulan - 2020
opinions, a behavior called doctor shopping. Patients then update their beliefs about their health status, following the Bayes …' rule. In this study, we model and derive patients' optimal doctor shopping decisions by adopting a `one-step look … patients' doctor shopping behavior on the social welfare from two aspects, namely, an objective one that concerns about whether …