This study tests the effects of large language model (LLM) decision support on patient care at two outpatient clinics in Nigeria. Health workers were given the option to make revisions to their initial care plan based on LLM feedback. The unassisted and assisted plans are evaluated using (1)...

We estimate doctor value-added (VA) combining population-wide patient-doctor register data with exogenous variation in the assignment of patients to GPs. We find substantial variation in the quality of GPs as measured by patients' post-assignment mortality. Certain doctor characteristics and...

This study aims to examine the attitudes of Turkish physicians towards euthanasia (death) tourism and to investigate the differences in these attitudes according to demographic variables. The questionnaire form prepared was applied to 424 physicians in the Marmara Region, where medical tourism...

We study the extent to which exposure to COVID-19 has affected the prosociality of healthcare professionals. Drawing on evidence from an incentivized experiment and a companion survey of healthcare professionals (N = 194) at a large Italian hospital, we find that exposure to COVID-19 predicts...

Mental health disorders tend to emerge in childhood, with half starting by age 14. This makes early intervention important, but treatment rates are low, and antidepressant treatment for children remains controversial since an FDA warning in 2004 that highlighted adverse effects. Linking...

Background. In hospitals, decisions are often made under time pressure. There is, however, little evidence on how time pressure affects the quality of treatment and the documentation behavior of physicians. Setting. We implemented a controlled laboratory experiment with a healthcare framing in...

Despite growing evidence of gender disparities in healthcare utilization and health outcomes, there is a lack of understanding of what may drive such differences. We present novel evidence on the impact of physician-patient gender match on healthcare quality using the standardized patients (SPs)...

This study intends to prove and analyze three causal relationships in Indonesian hospitals. The first is the impact of human capital (HC) and competitive advantage (COMAD) on business performance. The second is the influence of HC on COMAD. The last is the mediating effect of COMAD on the...

To empirically assess how physicians respond to financial incentives, we leverage a quasi-natural experiment in France where most GPs' fees are regulated. In 2017, a wide-scale regulatory change caused the price of a visit to increase from €23 to €25. Relying on granular claims data covering...

Finding effective treatment for patients with rare diseases can be very difficult. Since the EU orphan regulations entered into force in 2000, it has played a central role in facilitating the development and authorisation of medicines for rare diseases.

There is a lack of understanding of what may drive gender disparities in healthcare utilization and outcomes. We present novel evidence on the impact of physician-patient gender match on healthcare quality using standardized patients (SPs) in an experiment, and collected interactions between SPs...

Background Evidence on the cost effectiveness of deprescribing in multimorbidity is limited. Objective To investigate the cost effectiveness of a general practitioner (GP) delivered, individualised medication review to reduce polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate prescribing in older...

We estimate doctor value-added (VA) combining population-wide patient-doctor register data with exogenous variation in the assignment of patients to GPs. We find substantial variation in the quality of GPs as measured by patients' post-assignment mortality. Certain doctor characteristics and...

We study a situation where physicians differing in their degree of altruism exert a diagnostic effort before deciding whether to test patients to determine the most appropriate treatment. The diagnostic effort generates an imperfect private signal of the patient’s type, while the test is...

Mental illnesses emerge in childhood, making early intervention important. However, antidepressant treatment rates remain low following a controversial FDA warning. We provide some of the first evidence of impacts of antidepressant treatment in childhood on objectively measured mental health...

Mental health disorders tend to emerge in childhood, with half starting by age 14. This makes early intervention important, but treatment rates are low, and antidepressant treatment for children remains controversial since an FDA warning in 2004 that highlighted adverse effects. Linking...

I analyze the mechanism used to assign medical doctors to mandatory service positions in Türkiye. To address staffing gaps in underserved areas, the government requires newly graduated, specialized, or subspecialized doctors to work in designated hospitals. Doctors submit ranked preferences,...

Background The alignment of preferences between physicians and patients can cause variations in treatment decision-making, thereby affecting health outcomes. However, research on the differences in preferences between physicians and the general population is scarce. This study examines the risk...

Disruptions of the patient-general practitioner (GP) relationship due to GP exits affect patient outcomes in various ways. The literature suggests that the loss of a trusted professional can have negative effects, but also points at the benefits of being examined by a new GP. We study the impact...