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SUBMITTER: Frakes M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7855422 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frakes Michael M Gruber Jonathan J Jena Anupam A
Journal of health economics 20201124
We place an upper bound on the degree to which policies aimed at improving the information deficiencies of patients may lead to greater adherence to clinical guidelines and recommended practices. To do so, we compare the degree of adherence attained by a group of patients that should have the best possible information on health care practices-i.e., physicians as patients-with that attained by a comparable group of non-physician patients, taking various steps to account for unobservable differenc ...[more]