Physician Preferences for Medical Innovation

该项目旨在通过提供关于医生采用和使用新医疗技术的过程的新证据，确定医疗实践变化的原因和后果。该项目预计将产生新的知识，医生的人力和社会资本如何决定他们的偏好，采取新的医疗技术和这种决定的经济后果。该项目的预期成果包括更好地了解不适当使用医疗保健的来源和成本，如低价值护理。这将带来巨大的好处，例如有助于制定有效的政策，提高医疗保健系统的效率和公平性。

This project aims to identify the causes and consequences of medical practice variations by providing new evidence on the process through which physicians adopt and use new medical technology. This project expects to generate new knowledge on how physicians' human and social capital determine their preferences for taking up new medical technology and the economic consequences of such decisions. Expected outcomes of this project include a greater understanding of the sources for and costs of inappropriate use of healthcare, such as low-value care. This should provide significant benefits, such as contributing to the construction of effective policies for improving efficiency and equity of the healthcare system.