Physician-Peer Relationships and Patient Experiences With Specialist Care.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Peer relationships may motivate physicians to aspire to high professional standards but have not been a major focus of quality improvement efforts.

Objective

To determine whether peer relationships between primary care physicians (PCPs) and specialists formed during training motivate improved specialist care for patients.

Design, setting, and participants

In this quasi-experimental study, difference-in-differences analysis was used to estimate differences in experiences with specialist care reported by patients of the same PCP for specialists who did vs did not co-train with the PCP, controlling for any differences in patient ratings of the same specialists in the absence of co-training ties. Specialist visits resulting from PCP referrals from 2016 to 2019

SUBMITTER: Pany MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9857606 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature