A cross-sectional study evaluated 182 students in the last two years of medical school and 70 residents of a national hospital in Peru on the risk indicators used for reporting results in clinical trials. A questionnaire was used to assess the ability to recognize and calculate risk indicators most widely used in the epidemiological literature. From the participants, 19.4% did not recognize any...

In this article, we estimate the price elasticities of demand for subscription and consumer switching costs for mobile telephony. We use a panel of Portuguese consumer level data to estimate a series of multinomial and mixed logit models. The demand for subscription is elastic. Switching costs are large. We use the structural model to perform several policy exercises. Switching costs and brand ...

To assess whether the maximum residue level proposed to CCPR, for use as a MRL, provides sufficient consumer safety, available residue data are combined with cultural dietary information to estimate potential residue intake by consumers. The consumer is considered to be adequately protected when estimated dietary intake of pesticide residues does not exceed the acceptable daily intake (ADI) or ...

This paper analyzes a structural microeconomic relation describing the exact consumer surplus in a nonparametric setting with endogenous prices. The exact consumer surplus can be characterized as the solution of a differential equation involving the observed demand function. The strategy put forward in this paper involves two steps: first estimate the demand function with endogeneity using nonp...

In this study, web-based consumer decision support system (WCDSS) is conceptualized, and its functionalities are examined against the stages of the online purchasing process. We propose that the WCDSS positively moderates the relationship between online transaction system and consumers purchasing decisions in terms of perceived information quality, decision time, consumer satisfaction, and inte...

This paper empirically evaluates the effect of consumer switching costs on market power of cable television providers. To do so I propose an algorithm to estimate supply side parameters when the demand side is represented by consumers with persistent heterogeneity in tastes and state-dependent utility. Under such conditions, regardless of whether consumers are forward-looking or behave in a myo...

Using the example of a large coalition of senior citizens in Ontario, Canada, the potential of consumer input to contribute to policy development and some key barriers to fulfilling that potential are explored. The political appeal of consumer involvement in policy development is highlighted, as is the potential for opposition from providers. The critical issue of finding sustainable funding to...

innovation has attracted considerable interest in recent years in improving competitive advantage for both profit and nonprofit organizations. service innovation offers the potential for substantially improving the performance, but performance gains are often obstructed by users’ unwillingness to accept and use available systems. this research aims to use the concept of reasoned action theory t...

RATIONALE Policymakers want health information technology (health IT) to support consumer engagement to help achieve national health goals. In this paper, we review the evidence to compare the rhetoric with the reality of current practice. CURRENT REALITY AND BARRIERS Our environmental scan shows that consumer demand exists for electronic access to personal health information, but that techni...