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ArticleThe European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care2025

Compliance with clinical guidelines: the role of incentives and competition between practitioners.

Gianluca Fiorentini, Luke B Connelly

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Article in The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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2 authors.

Gianluca FiorentiniDepartment of Economics, The University of Bologna, 40126, Bologna, BO, Italy. gianluca.fiorentini@unibo.it.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4197-9924
Luke B ConnellyCentre for the Business and Economics of Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072, Australia.

Funding

Next Generation EU. National Recovery and Resilience Plan. Project AGE-IT B83C22004800006
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this study we use a unit record, panel dataset, to examine the behaviour of clinicians under a chronic disease management program (CDMP) that is designed to improve care and slow the progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Using 8 years of quarterly data on the population of CKD patients (n = 44,686) in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, we analyse a setting where medical practitioners are agents who respond to the demands of two principals: their patient and the third-party payer. Exploiting detailed information on specialist visits and the concentration of general practitioners (GP) in local areas, as well as disease severity, we study how GPs on one side, and specialist nephrologists and cardiologists on the other comply with the CDMP guidelines, as may be predicted on the basis of a dual-agency approach. Our application of both multiple-treatment differences-in-differences (DID

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Guideline AdherenceMotivationPractice Guidelines as TopicPractice Patterns, Physicians'Renal Insufficiency, ChronicAgedDisease ManagementFemaleGeneral PractitionersHumansItalyMaleMiddle AgedChronic disease management programsCompliance with clinical guidelinesGPs/specialists' competitionIncentivesMultiple principals

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PMID40293631
PMCPMC12572000

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