Can Appealing to Patient Altruism Reduce Overuse of Health Care Services? An Experimental Survey.

CONCLUSIONS: In this experimental survey, altruistic appeals delivered by physicians did not reduce requests for overused services, and resulted in more negative physician ratings. Further studies are warranted to determine whether alternative methods of appealing to patient altruism can reduce overuse. PMID: 28155043 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Pain Physician - February 1, 2017 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Riggs KR, Ubel PA, Saloner B Tags: J Gen Intern Med Source Type: research