The acceptance of price lists at the emergency department: how do doctors think about it?

Background In a recent study, it was shown that cost-awareness among physicians working at the Swedish emergency department is very low. In another study, it could be shown that price lists can reduce the costs of laboratory and radiological investigations ordered. However, cost-cutting projects can result in irritation among physicians feeling themselves to be forced to implement cost-cutting in their daily work and might be considered to be both annoying and unnecessary. To get understanding of physicians view towards price-lists in their daily work we performed a study among physicians involved in patients at the emergency department of a university hospital.