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

Health Economics Review

Table 9 Intervention effects on physician prescribing, audit 1

	Model 1	Model 2
Panel A: Prescribing pattern
Antibiotics	0.580^*	0.511
	(0.306)	(0.264)
Other Rx	-1.967^***	-1.946^***
	(0.450)	(0.356)
OTC	1.589^***	1.768^***
	(0.304)	(0.499)
Alternatives	-3.455^***	-3.850^***
	(0.376)	(0.914)
Panel B: Average intervention effect
	0.041
	(0.101)
Panel C: Heterogeneous intervention effects
Antibiotics		0.182
		(0.336)
Other Rx		0.000
		(0.267)
OTC		-0.301
		(0.407)
Alternatives		0.715
		(1.480)
Number of observations	768	768
Log-Likelihood	-155.2	-154.8
Pseudo R²	0.417	0.419
AIC	320.3	325.5
BIC	343.5	362.7

Other Rx: Other prescription drugs; OTC: Over-the-counter drugs; Alternatives: Alternative and nonpharmacological treatments. Marginal utilities are presented with standard errors in parentheses. In both models, 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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