Physician Altruism and Spending, Hospital Admissions, and Emergency Department Visits.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Altruism-putting the patient first-is a fundamental component of physician professionalism. Evidence is lacking about the relationship between physician altruism, care quality, and spending.

Objective

To determine whether there is a relationship between physician altruism, measures of quality, and spending, hypothesizing that altruistic physicians have better results.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study that used a validated economic experiment to measure altruism was carried out between October 2018 and November 2019 using a nationwide sample of US primary care physicians and cardiologists. Altruism data were linked to 2019 Medicare claims and multivariable regressions were used to examine the relationship between altruism and qual

SUBMITTER: Casalino LP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11581536 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature