The effect of a mystery shopper scheme on prescribing behavior in primary care: Results from a field experiment

Health Economics Review

Table 6 Intervention effects on physician prescribing

	Model 1	Model 2
Panel A: Prescribing pattern (v_t)
Antibiotics	0.630^***	0.300
	(0.197)	(0.269)
Other Rx	-1.481^***	-1.186^***
	(0.294)	(0.367)
OTC	1.551^***	1.743^***
	(0.269)	(0.327)
Alternatives	-2.418^***	-2.375^***
	(0.531)	(0.688)
Panel B: Average intervention effect (γ)
	-0.214^***
	(0.064)
Panel C: Heterogeneous intervention effects (γ_t)
Antibiotics		0.458
		(0.304)
Other Rx		-0.943^**
		(0.434)
OTC		-0.557^**
		(0.264)
Alternatives		-0.311
		(0.519)
Number of observations	752	752
Log-Likelihood	-175.4	-173.2
Pseudo R²	0.327	0.336
AIC	360.9	362.4
BIC	384.0	399.3

Other Rx: Other prescription drugs; OTC: Over-the-counter drugs; Alternatives: Alternative and nonpharmacological treatments. Marginal utilities are presented with standard errors in parentheses. The standard errors are adjusted for clustering on groups of physicians by gender and age
^* p<0.1, ^** p<0.05, ^*** p<0.01

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