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Do consumers change their self-medication practices when drug quality changes? We present experimental evidence on this question in the context of Burkina Faso, where self-medication with antibiotics is a prevalent practise. We conduct chemical quality testing of antibiotics and find that one in...
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This paper studies an identification problem that arises when clinicians seek to personalize patient care by predicting health outcomes conditional on observed patient covariates. Let y be an outcome of interest and let (x=k, w=j) be observed patient covariates. Suppose a clinician wants to...
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We analyze the medical decision-making process, first from the perspective of a patient and then from the perspective … of a health care provider. Using a decision-tree, we describe the different actions a mother can take to treat her … different socioeconomic variables influence the mother's decision making process. With regard to the health care provider, we …
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Background: The objective of a decision maker is to determine the optimal allocation of treatments across population …
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