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A Doctor Will See You Now: Physician-Patient Relationships and Clinical Decisions / Erin Johnson, M. Marit Rehavi, David C. Chan, Jr, Daniela Carusi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Erin.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w22666.
- NBER working paper series no. w22666
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Doctor Will See You Now
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2016.
- Summary:
- We provide novel estimates of the causal impact of physician-patient relationships on physicians' decisions. Exploiting quasi-random assignment of patients to OBs at childbirth, we find OBs are 25% likelier to perform C-sections when delivering patients they have a preexisting clinical relationship with (their "own patients"). This effect is increasing in the relationship's strength. OBs also curtail labor sooner, are less likely to employ other invasive procedures (e.g., vacuum or forceps), and avoid complications of long and difficult births for their own patients.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- September 2016.
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