decision may seem irrational or imprudent. When patients are incapable of providing informed consent—for example, if the … patient is unconscious—the law can authorize certain persons to act as a proxy on their behalf. In Argentina, the Patients … preference. The Patients’ Rights Act also permits patients to set up advance directives regarding health decisions to be made if …

nudge clinicians to use PDAs with their patients: the monetary incentive of a professional liability insurance premium …Tort-based doctrines of informed consent have utterly failed to assure that patients understand the risks, benefits … shown it to be an abject catastrophe. Most patients lack an even minimal understanding of their treatment options. But there …

utilization, outcomes, and costs for patients hospitalized for dementia in China. Regional patterns demonstrate gaps in equity and … efficiency of dementia care and management for dementia patients. Health policy and practices should consider geographic …

utilization, outcomes, and costs for patients hospitalized for dementia in China. Regional patterns demonstrate gaps in equity and … efficiency of dementia care and management for dementia patients. Health policy and practices should consider geographic …

hospital's patients as compared to Jinnah hospital.Conclusion: This study indicates that OOP direct medical cost burden was … in reducing out of pocket (OOP) expenses on direct medical costs borne by breast carcinoma patients' household from … said patients during the services taken from the foresaid tertiary care centers.Methods: A purposive sample of 164 primary …

healthcare quality using the standardized patients (SPs) method in an experiment. The experiment collected interactions between … standardized patients and physicians in a primary care setting in China during 2017-2018. We find that, compared with female … physicians treating female SPs, female physicians treating male SPs resulted in a 23.4 percentage-point increase in correct …

) in an experiment, and collected interactions between SPs and physicians in a primary care setting. We find that, compared … present novel evidence on the impact of physician-patient gender match on healthcare quality using standardized patients (SPs … with female physicians treating female SPs, female physicians treating male SPs had a 23.4 pp increase in correct diagnosis …

there is substantial variation in the quality of physicians, as measured by patients’ post-assignment mortality, in the …, combining rich population-wide register data with random assignment of patients to general practitioners (GPs). We show that … point decline in a patient’s two-year mortality risk. While we find evidence of observable doctor characteristics and …