| ▲ | myaccount80 6 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
Relevant paper, this guy goes to 180 different dentists in Zurich for an opinion https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320070183_Health_Se... (PDF) Health Services As Credence Goods: A Field Experiment | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | sedatk 4 hours ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
From the abstract: "In the experiment, we vary the socio-economic status (SES) of the patient and whether a second opinion signal is sent. Furthermore, measures of market, practice and dentist characteristics are collected. We observe an overtreatment recommendation rate of 28 % and a striking heterogeneity in treatment recommendations. Furthermore, we find significantly less overtreatment recommendations for patients with higher SES compared to lower SES for standard visits, suggesting a complex role of patients' SES. Competition intensity, measured by dentist density, does not have a significant influence on overtreatment. Dentists with shorter waiting times are more likely to propose unnecessary treatment." | |||||||||||||||||
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