The global ubiquity of overuse and underuse of health-care resources and the gravity of
resulting harms necessitate an investigation of drivers to inform potential solutions. We …

Chronic back pain is among the most common patient complaints. Its prevalence and impact
have spawned a rapidly expanding range of tests and treatments. Some of these have …

Much of the recent literature on interfirm relationships has focused on strategies for
controlling opportunism. Somewhat surprisingly, little attention has been paid in this …

This article has been corrected. The original version (PDF) is appended to this article as a
supplement. Diagnostic imaging is indicated for patients with low back pain only if they have …

Many marketing exchanges are characterized by an information asymmetry between
suppliers and customers. Specifically, customers are faced with both adverse selection and …

Information security and privacy in the healthcare sector is an issue of growing importance.
The adoption of digital patient records, increased regulation, provider consolidation and the …

Funding statement: No funding was received for this manuscript. Disclosures: Roger Chou
was the lead author on guidelines developed by the American Pain Society and American …

Objective. To compare type, timing, and longitudinal medical costs incurred after adherent
versus nonadherent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for work-related low back pain …

Physicians, scholars, and policymakers continue to be concerned about conflicts of interests
among health care providers. At least two main types of objections to conflicts of interest …

Abstract While the United States leads the world in many measures of health care
innovation, it has been suggested that it lags behind many developed nations in a variety of …