Doctors and their workshops : economic models of physician behavior / Mark V. Pauly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pauly, Mark V., 1941-

Series:

National Bureau of Economic Research monograph.

A National Bureau of Economic Research monograph

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical economics--United States.

Medical economics.

Physicians--United States.

Physicians.

Medical care--Utilization--United States.

Medical care.

Physician and patient--United States.

Physician and patient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (143 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1980.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Doctors are obviously influential in determining the costs of their services. But even more important, many believe, is the influence physicians have over the use and cost of nonphysician health-care resources and services. Doctors and Their Workshops is the first comprehensive attempt to use economic analysis to understand some of the physician effects on nonphysician aspects of health care.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Relation of the Directors to the Work· and Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Physicians as Agents

2. Physicians and Hospitals

3. Physician Influence on the Productivity of Hospitals: Empirical Results

4. Physician Information and the Consumer's Demand for Care

5. The Availability Effect: Empirical Results

6. Hospital Beds, Hospital-oriented Physicians, and Hospital Use

7. Conclusions and Policy Implications

Appendix

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612070105

9781282070103

128207010X

9780226650463

0226650464

OCLC:

435816556