Drug therapy adherence and health outcomes in presence of physician and patient unobserved heterogeneity

Vincenzo Atella, Federico Belotti and Domenico Depalo

No 186, CEIS Research Paper from Tor Vergata University, CEIS

Abstract: Understanding the role that drug adherence has on health outcomes in everyday clinical practice is central for the policy maker. This is particularly true when patients suffer from asymptomatic chronic conditions (i.e., hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and diabetes). By exploiting a unique longitudinal dataset at patient and physician level in Italy, we show that patients and physicians (observed and unobserved) characteristics play an important role in determining health status, at least as important as drug adherence. Most importantly, we show that physicians can have an important role in determining patient health status, far beyond the standard determinants of health status that clinical and health economic literature have discussed and analysed.

Keywords: Health outcomes; Adherence; Physician heterogeneity; Patient heterogeneity. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 I12 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2011-01-24, Revised 2017-06-22
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