Patient and Physician Behavior
Our work in Patient and Physician Behavior
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A Simple Nudge, a Powerful Response: Reducing Inappropriate Antibiotic Prescribing
The Schaeffer Center is reducing antibiotic prescribing through behavioral economics.
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Why Do So Many Doctors Practice Defensive Medicine? Maybe Because it Works
Physicians with higher spending in a given year were substantially less likely to be sued for malpractice the following year.
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Reducing Infections While Cutting Costs: Eliminating Antibiotic Overprescriptions
Low-cost nudges that reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions can improve health outcomes, save resources and help guard against the rise in drug-resistant bacteria.
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A ‘Nudge’ Reduces Doctors’ Unnecessary Antibiotic Prescription, Study Finds
Socially-motivated behavioral interventions show promise in changing physician behavior.
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A Medication Lock-In Program May Not Be the Easy Solution to the Opioid Abuse Epidemic That Congress Thinks It Is
Before anyone can propose effective solutions to this problem, we need to accurately quantify prescription opioid use and abuse in Medicare and continue to analyze the trends in opioid prescriptions as well as the characteristics of utilization.
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Physician Spending and Subsequent Risk of Malpractice Claims: Observational Study
In this study, the researchers found that, within specialty and after adjustment for patient characteristics, higher resource use by physicians is associated with fewer malpractice claims.
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Tort Reform and Physician Labor Supply: A Review of the Evidence
In this paper, which reviews the evidence on the relationship between tort reform and physician supply and assess the implications for any given state, the researchers found that noneconomic damage caps increase the supply of physicians in high-risk specialties, but effects vary significantly across states.
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Ending Suffering by Ending Persons
Because physician-assisted suicide does not just end suffering but also ends a person, it trusts that in the future we would be the same person that we are now—the person who wants to commit suicide, says Jason Doctor.
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Antithrombotic Use in Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation (NVAF): Alignment between Guidelines and Emerging Evidence with Clinician Prescribing Preferences
This study surveyed physicians to determine how their preferences over antithrombotic therapies compare with current treatment guidelines and indirect treatment comparisons.
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