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M C Pontes

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PubMed1997

Variables that influence consumers' inferences about physician ability and accountability.

Previous research has shown that the quality of interpersonal care provided by physicians is correlated with the initiation of malpractice litigation. Unfortunately, this research has not controlled for the effects of actual treatment quality or of health outcomes. The research on which this article is based experimentally manipulates three variables: (1) patient involvement with treatment decisions, (2) financial incentives by third party payers to encourage costeffective medicine, and (3) use of new treatment practices that have not been widely adopted by other physicians.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1995

Agency theory: a framework for analyzing physician services.

The principles of agency theory and how the theory can be used as a framework for the design of physician selection procedures and of physician compensation contracts and control systems for the regulation of physician practices are discussed. The theory is used to show why third party payers who wish to control expenditure for high quality health care may be better off if they enter into salary contracts rather than fee-for-service or capitation contracts with individual physicians.

Capitation Fee↗