| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w26269 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 26269 |
| Primary Care Physician Practice Styles and Patient Care: Evidence from Physician Exits in Medicare | |
| Itzik Fadlon; Jessica N. Van Parys | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-09-16 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Primary care physicians (PCPs) provide frontline health care to patients in the U.S.; however, it is unclear how their practice styles affect patient care. In this paper, we estimate the long-lasting effects of PCP practice styles on patient health care utilization by focusing on Medicare patients affected by PCP relocations or retirements, which we refer to as "exits." Observing where patients receive care after these exits, we estimate event studies to compare patients who switch to PCPs with different practice style intensities. We find that PCPs have large effects on a range of aggregate utilization measures, including physician and outpatient spending and the number of diagnosed conditions. Moreover, we find that PCPs have large effects on the quality of care that patients receive, and that all of these effects persist for several years. Our results suggest that switching to higher-quality PCPs could significantly affect patients' longer-run health outcomes. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w26269 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/583942 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Itzik Fadlon,Jessica N. Van Parys. Primary Care Physician Practice Styles and Patient Care: Evidence from Physician Exits in Medicare. 2019. |
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| w26269.pdf（504KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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