ArticleBMC health services research2018
Comparing GPs' risk attitudes for their own health and for their patients' : a troubling discrepancy?
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- Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Elderly Diabetic Patients and Their Families Regarding Comorbid Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2025Article
- Herding-like behaviour in medical decision making: An experimental study investigating general practitioners' prescription behaviour.PloS one · 2024Article
- Health Care Provider Stigma Toward Patients With Substance Use Disorders: Protocol for a Nationally Representative Survey.JMIR research protocols · 2023Article
- Eliciting risk preferences that predict risky health behavior: A comparison of two approaches.Health economics · 2022Article
- Physician uncertainty aversion impacts medical decision making for older patients with acute myeloid leukemia: results of a national survey.Haematologica · 2018Article
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Abstract
backgroundIn this paper, we report the results of risk attitudes elicitation of a French general practitioners national representative sample (N=1568).
methodsWillingness to take risks in four different domains (daily life, financial matters, own health and patient health) was collected through a large-scale telephone interview of GPs using self-reported 11-point Likert scale questions.
resultsWe uncover some specificities of the GPs population regarding their attitudes towards risk. In particular, we detect an important positive gap between their willingness to take risks in the domain of their own health and in the domain of the heath of their patients. This "patient-regarding" risk aversion is discussed with respect to its important consequences regarding medical behavior bias.
conclusionsWe confirm the self-other discrepancy found in the medical literature on physicians' behaviors and emphasize the utility of the study and measures of personality traits such as "risk attitudes" for the medical professions and for the population they address.
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