Can information about the value of diagnostic tests improve provider practice and help patients recognize higher … quality of care? In a randomized experiment at public clinics in Mali, health providers and patients received tailored …. Nonetheless, patients were significantly less satisfied with the care they received, driven by those whose prior beliefs did not …

.S. health care system includes several compensatory cost-containment mechanisms, but their effects depend on how patients and …

improve health outcomes if it reduces information frictions and helps patients choose higher quality providers or causes …%. Broadband access primarily helped patients choose higher-quality providers; we find less evidence that broadband improved …

patients with whom they have a pre-existing clinical relationship (their "own patients") than when delivering patients with … patients' difficult labors. After a string of difficult labors, OBs are more likely to perform C-sections on their own patients …

, using a unique set of audit studies. We sent standardized (fake) patients to rural primary care providers in the Indian … main findings. First, most private providers lacked formal medical training, but they spent more time with patients and …

decide how aggressively the patient should be treated. Using Florida data on all such patients from 1992-2014, we decompose …. We show that within hospitals and years, patients with more aggressive providers have consistently higher costs and … better outcomes. Since all patients benefit from higher utilization of invasive procedures, targeting procedure use to the …

migration of Medicare patients to separate the role of demand and supply factors. Our approach allows us to account for demand …

profile choice formats focused on measuring patient preference for hearing aids …

human capital (general, hospital-specific and unit or team-specific) of the nursing team on the unit affects patients …