Thanks for the presentation! This is indeed an exciting work in this field!!
The geographical variation in medical expenditure is a focus of policymakers and researchers, and both supply-side factors and demand-side factors could influence it. This research is actually an exciting work trying to understand it from the medication used.
So I am wondering if we're able to merge the dataset to physician prescription and disease identification results /patient characteristics, thus we would be able to better understand the variation in medication use (control for demand). Also, I'm thinking that if we're able to see the geographical variation in medication use for some diseases with a "standard treatment therapy", we would be able to use it to measure the preference of physicial and see if they're a cowboy physician or not.
Some research in economics in this field include here and here, and I think your findings largely complements theirs!
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5 years ago
Thanks for the presentation! This is indeed an exciting work in this field!!
The geographical variation in medical expenditure is a focus of policymakers and researchers, and both supply-side factors and demand-side factors could influence it. This research is actually an exciting work trying to understand it from the medication used.
So I am wondering if we're able to merge the dataset to physician prescription and disease identification results /patient characteristics, thus we would be able to better understand the variation in medication use (control for demand). Also, I'm thinking that if we're able to see the geographical variation in medication use for some diseases with a "standard treatment therapy", we would be able to use it to measure the preference of physicial and see if they're a cowboy physician or not.
Some research in economics in this field include here and here, and I think your findings largely complements theirs!
Thanks again and looking forward to your talk.