HERO seminar: Do busy physicians prescribe more medication? Quality and market?
Foredragsholder: Inger Cathrine Kann, stipendiat ved HØKH og NAV.
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Tittel: Do busy physicians prescribe more medication? Quality and market?
Abstract:
When policy makers introduce a market for primary care physician services, important aims are to increase both quality and efficiency. This article discusses how supply and demand factors may influence drug prescriptions in this market. Register data of all medication prescribed by the regular general practitioner (GP) to home-dwelling elderly are used. Using panel data methods, the effects of competition and tightness of the GP’s time budget, on the GP’s prescription levels are estimated.
The results indicate that prescription levels increase due to competition, and that GPs with long lists prescribe more per list-patient. GPs with less tight time budget, proxied by service provision to patients not registered on the GP’s list, prescribe less per list-patient. These findings may reflect mechanisms at work on both the supply and the demand side of this expert service market.
Forfatter: Inger Cathrine Kann
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