Word: studdert
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...What is clear from our results is that it’s the physicians, the people who are closest to the bedside and who almost certainly have the most direct experience with managed care, who were the least likely to choose HMOs,” said David Studdert, the study’s lead author and assistant professor of health policy and management...
...doctors’ choices don’t necessarily indicate that HMO patient care is inferior, Studdert said...
...study, which Studdert has guided since 1999, also revealed that physicians in general, and non-physicians with yearly incomes above $150,000, were less likely to choose HMO care than non-physicians with lower incomes...
...don’t think that there is any clear policy direction from these results,” Studdert said...
Instead, the data produced will serve as a springboard for further research. “What we will be able to do with these results is design more focused studies to discover what physicians were averse to,” Studdert said...