How Primary Care Physicians Integrate Price Information into Clinical Decision-Making

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 81-87

  Schiavoni, Katherine H ^a,b   Lehmann, Lisa Soleymani ^a,c,d,e   Guan, Wendy ^f   Rosenthal, Meredith ^d   Sequist, Thomas D ^a,c,g   Chien, Alyna T ^a,f  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g PARTNERS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

health services research; primary care; technology assessment

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABLE CARE ORGANIZATION; BLOOD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONSTANT COMPARATIVE METHOD; CONVERSATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HABIT; HUMAN; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESPONSIBILITY; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; X RAY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEE; FEMALE; MALE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TRENDS;

CLINICAL DECISION-MAKING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEES AND CHARGES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS, PRIMARY CARE; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84983397323     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-016-3805-0     Document Type: Article

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