Physician induced demand for knee replacement surgery in Iran

• Main Authors: Cyrus Alinia (Author), Amirhossein Takian (Author), Nasser Saravi (Author), Hasan Yusefzadeh (Author), Bakhtiar Piroozi (Author), Alireza Olyaeemanesh (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The structure of the Iranian health system has raised this hypothesis that a part of the Knee Replacement Surgery (KRS) services are provided due to Physician-Induced Demand (PID). Methods This paper used an unbalanced individual panel data covering the steady-state 15,729 KRSs p...