Prescribing behavior of General Practitioners: Competition matters
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PRESCRIBING BEHAVIOR OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS: COMPETITION MATTERS! by
Background: General Practitioners have limited means to compete. As quality is hard to observe by patients, GPs have incentives to signal quality by using instruments patients perceive as quality. Objectives: We investigate whether GPs exhibit different prescribing behavior (volume and value of prescriptions) when confronted with more competition. As there is no monetary benefit in doing so, th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Policy
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0168-8510
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2014.12.018