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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"physician behavior"”.
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Physician Behavior In Accountable Care Organizations
… contracting affects how providers, specifically physician groups and health systems, determine marginal treatment choice and set the level of care provided to patients. Utilizing the widespread adoption of Accountable Care Organization (ACO) contracts by both commercial payers and Medicare, …
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Improving Physician Behavior with an Obstetric Dashboard
… providers' episiotomy utilization rates using a physician dashboard. For our second project, heat pack application in the late first stage of labor was instituted. RESULTS: Following dashboard implementation, there was significant reduction in the institutional rate of episiotomy (9.0% …
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Essays on malpractice law and physician behavior
… various dimensions of malpractice law shape physician behavior and how this behavior, in turn, impacts health outcomes. In Chapter 1, I explore the association between regional variations in physician practices and the geographical scope of the standards of care to which physicians are held …
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Physician behavior and technology diffusion in health care
Chapter 1 examines geographic variations in physician practice styles by exploring the role of physician-specific factors such as preferences and learned behavior versus environment-level factors such as hospital capacity. I exploit cardiologist migration across geographic regions and find that …
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Three essays on health economics: Theoretical and experimental evidence on physician behavior
Hace unos años trabajé con un equipo de médicos de diferentes especialidades clínicas en proyectos de evaluación de tecnologías sanitarias. Durante estas interacciones pude conocer particularidades de la toma de decisiones clínica, que, por sus implicaciones económicas, llamaron mi atención. Por …
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Nurses' Perceptions of the Effects of Disruptive Physician Behavior on Patient Safety
<p>Disruptive behavior can potentially exist in any workplace; however, when it occurs in healthcare the stakes are elevated. Communication breakdown has been identified as a factor that contributes to medical errors and disruptive behavior is a potential cause of communication breakdown. The …
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Essays on the Economics of Insurance and Healthcare Markets
… characteristics affect consumer and insurer behavior. The third chapter focuses on the U.S. healthcare market and studies how the financial incentives that arise due to price variation in the multi-payer system affect physician behavior when the physician has more information and the …
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Hospital Competition and Physician Prices (Economics, Health Care)
This study investigates the relationship between physicians and hospitals. Physicians are modeled as purchasing hospital affiliation. The affiliation fee is in the form of donated services, restrictions on physician behavior and other means by which the physician is made to bear hospital costs. The …
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An exploratory study of utilization fees in the Swift Current Health Region
… the influence utilization fees exert on physician behavior. The research hypothesis was "Physicians uniformly charge utilization fees to all patients when the Saskatchewan Medical Care Insurance Program provides them with the opportunity to make such charges". The study surveyed 34.3 per …
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Essays on the economics of health insurance
… this reimbursement change on home health agency behavior, beneficiary health care utilization, and health status. The empirical evidence suggests that agencies responded to the caps by shifting the composition of their caseload towards healthier beneficiaries. In addition, I find that decreases …
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Applicability of the Theory of Planned Behavior to explain clinicians’ intention to screen men who have sex with men for syphilis infection
… in this population. The Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) may help to elucidate the attitudes, social and professional norms, and perceived behavioral control that providers experience towards syphilis screening. The extent to which these cognitive-behavioral factors facilitate clinicians’ …
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The Effects of Physician Organization on the Disadoption of Low-Value Services: Evidence From PSA Testing and Mammography
… understanding of how information diffuses across physician networks and what motivates physicians to change behavior. In particular, despite growing interest in reducing overutilization of care, physician “disadoption” of low-value technologies and services has received little empirical attention. …
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Essays on health care delivery and financing
… the effect of organizational structure on physician behavior. I investigate this by studying emergency department (ED) physicians who work in two organizational systems that differ in the extent of physician autonomy to manage work: a "nurse-managed" system in which physicians are assigned …
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Affirming Expectations: African American Men's Perceptions Of Trust In Physicians
… AMERICAN MEN’S PERCEPTIONS OF TRUST IN PHYSICIANS</p> <p>by</p> <p>RONDRELL TAYVAN TAYLOR</p> <p>August 2015</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. R. Khari Brown</p> <p>Major: Sociology (Medical)</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy</p> <p>Trust is the foundation of the doctor-patient relationship. It …
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Factors Influencing Physicians' Willingness to Substitute Generics For Brand-Names when Prescribing Antimicrobial Drugs
Physicians often continue to prescribe brand-name drugs to their patients even when less expensive generic equivalents are available. In a 1994 study, Judith Hellerstein advances two hypotheses to explain this behavior. First, doctors may consciously conclude that certain brand-name drugs impart a …