The Effect of Patient's Asymmetric Information Problem on Medical Care Utilization with Consideration of a Patient's Ex-ante Health Status

Jae-Young Lim and Changik Jo

Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, 2009, vol. 50, issue 2, 37-58

Abstract: Even if a patient's access to health information has been enhanced, a patient still doesn't have enough ability to utilize it. Therefore, a doctor's effort to sincerely communicate with a patient might affect the patient's use of medical care. This paper builds up the empirical model and found the effect of a doctor's effort on patient's medical care use was significant and according to the ex-ante health status of a patient, a doctor's effort influenced a patient's medical care use in different way.

Keywords: asymmetry of information between doctor and patient; patient's medical care use; doctor's effort to effectively communicate with patients; patient's ex-ante health status (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 I11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.15057/18050

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