Eliciting GPs' preferences for pecuniary and non-pecuniary job characteristics

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This research finds that the most attractive factor for physicians looking to locate their practice is the hours they will need to commit. Other factors that affect physicians choice of location include amount of daytime work hours, practice guidelines, and income.

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Do fee descriptors influence treatment choices in general practice? A multilevel discrete choice model

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General practitioners who utilized content-based descriptors are expected to provide prescription, counselling and treatment to the same extent as the ones who utilized time-based descriptors. A multilevel modelling approach revealed that patient age and sex are considered the most significant factors that affect decisions. This also implies that factors that are related to the patients are significant in the decision making of general practitioners.

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Agency in health care. Examining patients' preferences for attributes of the doctor-patient relationship

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Medical patients generally prefer to disclose information about their health status to doctors rather than conceal them, as revealed by survey results gathered from the Department of Public Health in the University of Aberdeen. It was further shown that patients, particularly females and highly-qualified individuals, are more inclined to involve themselves in various decision-making activities. Older patients and less-educated ones, on the other hand, manifested minimal participation in decision-making.

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