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Physician beneficence and profit-taking among private for-profit clinics in China: A field study using a mystery shopper audit

Journal of behavioral and experimental economics, 2023-12 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ;ISSN: 2214-8043 ;EISSN: 2214-8051 ;DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2023.102129

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  • Title:
    Physician beneficence and profit-taking among private for-profit clinics in China: A field study using a mystery shopper audit
  • Author: Cheo, Roland ; Ge, Ge ; Liu, Rugang ; Wang, Jian ; Wang, Qiqi
  • Is Part Of: Journal of behavioral and experimental economics, 2023-12
  • Description: This study employs a mystery shopper audit on a random sample of 96 for-profit private clinics in Jinan, China. We investigate two instruments which reflect beneficence among for-profit clinicians in private practice. The first is whether physicians returned a lost wallet “accidentally” left next to the physician’s table; and the second, whether physicians prescribed antibiotics to pseudo-patients who displayed no symptoms of any illness but had complained of fever the night before. These measures quantify beneficence under two different valence framing: returning a wallet represents clinicians who “do good” at personal cost to themselves, while not prescribing antibiotics represents a choice “not to do harm” to patients. We look at the correlation between these beneficence measures and the physicians’ prescription behaviors, and their revenues from the consultation. We find that whether doctors return a lost wallet or not, and prescribe antibiotics or not, such physicians are still as likely to prescribe medications which increase their incomes.
  • Language: Norwegian
  • Identifier: ISSN: 2214-8043
    EISSN: 2214-8051
    DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2023.102129
  • Source: NORA Norwegian Open Research Archives
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