Doctors and Their Workshops: Economic Models of Physician Behavior (A National Bureau of Economic Research Monograph)

Doctors are obviously influential in determining the costs of their services. But even more important, many believe, is the influence physicians have over the use and cost of nonphysician health-care resources and services. Doctors and Their Workshops is the first comprehensive attempt to use economic analysis to understand some of the physician effects on nonphysician aspects of health care. Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 10 1. Physicians as Agents......Page 12 2. Physicians and Hospitals......Page 28 3. Physician Influence on the Productivity of Hospitals: Empirical Results......Page 36 4. Physician Information and the Consumer’s Demand for Care......Page 54 5. The Availability Effect: Empirical Results......Page 76 6. Hospital Beds, Hospital-oriented Physicians, and Hospital Use......Page 102 7. Conclusions and Policy Implications......Page 122 Appendix......Page 130 Notes......Page 134 Index......Page 140 Mark V. Pauly. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.