منابع مشابه
Designing and Psychometric Assessing of Physician-Patient Communication Skills Tool
Background: Assessment of physicians’ communication skills with patients is essential to ensure effective treatment. Achieving such a goal requires the use of a valid, native, and culturally-based tool. This study aimed to design a physician-patient communication skills assessment tool and evaluate its validity and reliability among the medical students of Guilan University of Medical Sciences,...
متن کاملPhysician Agency, Compliance, and Patient Welfare: Evidence from Anti-Cholesterol Drugs JOB MARKET PAPER
Physician agency is an important issue in health economics, but its welfare implications are not well studied. I examine agency problems in the market for anti-cholesterol drugs. Since doctors write prescriptions but patients decide whether to fill them, I separately examine initial prescriptions and compliance decisions to infer doctor and patient drug preferences. I show that initial prescrip...
متن کاملPatient and physician views on providing cancer patient-specific survival information.
OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To gather input regarding the presentation, content, and understanding of survival and support information for Prognostigram, a computer-based program that uses standard cancer registry data elements to present individualized survival estimates. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional survey research. METHODS Two groups of patients (total n=40) and one group of physicians (n=5) w...
متن کاملOptimal Health Care Contract under Physician Agency
We model asymmetric information arising from physician agency, and its effect on the design of payment and health care quantity. The physician-patient coalition aims to maximize a combination of physician profit and patient benefit. The degree of substitution between profit and patient benefit in the physician-patient coalition is the physician’s private information, as is the patient’s intrins...
متن کاملAsymmetric Information from Physician Agency: Optimal Payment and Healthcare Quantity
We model asymmetric information arising from physician agency, and its effect on the design of payment and healthcare quantity. The physician-patient coalition aims to maximize a combination of physician profit and patient benefit. The degree of substitution between profit and patient benefit in the physician-patient coalition is the physician’s private information, as is the patient’s intrinsi...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0167-2681
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2016.11.011