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The present study compares patient satisfaction scores with job satisfaction scores of the physicians providing their care in 16 general internal medicine teaching hospital group practices.
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Americans delude themselves if they think that the rising tide of medical costs can be stemmed for long without sacrificing some beneficial care.
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Health care expenditures of 1,136 children whose families participated in a randomized trial, The Rand Health Insurance Experiment, are reported.
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Using data from a randomized trial in health insurance, this paper examines the effect of cost sharing on use of dental services.
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Today's new physicians are faced with an awesome array of often conflicting challenges: assimilating the vast and everincreasing base of scientific knowledge, coping with societal concerns over the cost of medical care, dealing with ethical dilemmas surrounding life-sustaining technology, and recognizing the changing nature of the physician-patient relationship.
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These results are consistent with the earlier conclusions that HMOs cause a once-and-for-all reduction in cost.
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Free care also led to higher compliance by hypertensives with diet and smoking recommendations and higher use of medication by those who needed it.
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Educators have expressed concern about the declining percentage of graduating residents who choose an academic career. This study identifies characteristics of postgraduate physicians that are associated with intentions to pursue an academic career or a full-time private practice.
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Reports the findings of a national survey to determine the current status of court-annexed arbitration among state and federal trial courts, and is an update of a similar survey conducted by The Institute for Civil Justice in 1980, and published as R2732
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Sites for drawing Health Insurance Study (HIS) experimental samples should be chosen to generate estimates that (1) reflect national norms and (2) vary minimally.
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... this Note examines the economics of bulk power market exchanges and analyzes the effects of regulation on the incentives to exchange power.
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Presents preliminary information on punitive damages awarded between 1959 and 1984 by juries in Cook County, Illinois, and San Francisco County, California.
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"No-fault" automobile insurance plans are designed to supplant the tort system by requiring motorists to purchase no-fault insurance and allowing victims to file liability insurance claims and tort suits only if their injuries exceed a legislated ...
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This paper, a reprint of an article that originally appeared in American Sociological Review, v. 50, no. 2, Apr. 1985, examines the impact of the transition to parenthood on the amount of time men and women spend on paid employment.
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This paper is a collection of essays, all but one of which were previously published between November 1981 and November 1984 as op-ed pieces in the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Newsweek.
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Examines the effect of the comparative negligence law with respect to the increase in awards to plaintiffs who take their case to trial.
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This paper is the text of a briefing presented to the U.S. Department of Justice on the results of research performed at RAND and published in RAND/R-3186-NIJ, Granting Felons Probation: Public Risks and Alternatives.
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Analyzes ways in which firms have responded to recent changes in pressures to design safer products, based on interviews with product safety officials in major manufacturers and extensive analysis of legal and scholarly literature.
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This paper endeavors to provide policy-relevant information that may be used in the continuing public debate regarding the "appropriate" government role in the expanding telecommunications industry.
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Household data from the Malaysian Family Life Survey are used to assess the roles of mortality correlates in explaining the inverse relationship between the infant mortality rate (IMR) and socioeconomic development. Increases in mothers' education an...
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