physicians. Using hospital discharge records from the National Hospital Discharge Survey and clinically-validated quality metrics … upon reforms that expect physicians to adhere to higher quality clinical standards. We do not find evidence, however …

Do physicians invest in medical service facilities to profit from the overtreatment of patients? Current literature … only shows that physicians with a financial interest in an entity to which they refer patients order more services than … physicians without such a financial interest. These studies, however, do not prove that the additional services constitute …

to its population. In spite of this, Québec’s family physicians and the general public regularly report that provincial … “very difficult” time accessing after-hours care versus 58 percent of Ontarians. Why? Quebec physicians tend to spend less … for the shortest physician’s work week at 34.9 hours, compared to 43 in Ontario. Younger doctors (under age 45) work even …

perfect physicians should be allowed to control health care even if safeguards are needed in practice because real physicians …

choices. We utilize data from a prescriber panel comprising 681 physicians collectively serving 68,362 patients under- going … treatments compared to those with public insurance. Furthermore, the composition of physicians' practices plays a crucial role in …

out-of-network referrals from primary care physicians (PCPs) to specialists. We estimate a difference-in-differences model …, exploiting changes in EHR developer adoption by physicians' affiliated hospitals. After a change in the PCP's EHR developer …