The Determinants of Productivity in Medical Testing: Intensity and Allocation of Care

Volume: 106, Issue: 12, Pages: 3730 - 3764
Published: Dec 1, 2016
Abstract
A large body of research has investigated whether physicians overuse care. There is less evidence on whether, for a fixed level of spending, doctors allocate resources to patients with the highest expected returns. We assess both sources of inefficiency, exploiting variation in rates of negative imaging tests for pulmonary embolism. We document enormous across-doctor heterogeneity in testing conditional on patient population, which explains the...
Paper Details
Title
The Determinants of Productivity in Medical Testing: Intensity and Allocation of Care
Published Date
Dec 1, 2016
Volume
106
Issue
12
Pages
3730 - 3764
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