A Taste of Their Own Medicine: Guideline Adherence and Access to Expertise

We use administrative data from Sweden to study adherence 63 medication-related guidelines. compare the of patients without personal access medical expertise that with access, namely doctors and their close relatives. estimate observably similar have 3.8 percentage points lower adherence, relative a baseline rate 54.4 percent among those access. Our findings suggest an important role in nonadherence for factors other than those, such as ignorance, poor communication, complexity, would be expected diminish expertise.(JEL D82, D83, I11, I12, I18)