How Much Do Patients’ Preferences Contribute To Resource Use?
- 1 May 2009
- journal article
- Published by Health Affairs (Project Hope) in Health Affairs
- Vol. 28 (3) , 864-873
- https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.28.3.864
Abstract
Regional variation in health care use may stem, in part, from the fact that patients in high-utilization regions demand and receive more-intensive care. We examine the association between patients’...Keywords
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