Most health care providers in developing countries know that oral rehydration salts (ORS)
are a lifesaving and inexpensive treatment for child diarrhea, yet few prescribe it. This know …

Economists often use balance tests to demonstrate that the treatment and control groups are
comparable prior to an intervention. We show that typical implementations of balance tests …

Introduction Low and varied quality of care has been demonstrated for childhood illnesses in
low-income and middle-income countries. Some quality improvement strategies focus on …

Introduction Medicine prescribing practices are integral to quality of care for leading
infectious diseases such as tuberculosis (TB). We describe prescribing practices in South …

We study two interventions in Beijing, China, that provide patients with information on
antibiotic resistance via text message to discourage the overuse of antibiotics. The …

Millions of adults in low-and middle-income countries die from treatable conditions every
year. This paper highlights that an understaffed public healthcare system contributes to high …

Nigeria is one of the countries in the world with the highest burden of malaria, accounting for
a quarter of all cases in Africa. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …

Can information about the value of diagnostic tests improve provider practice and help
patients recognize higher quality of care? In a randomized experiment at public clinics in …

This study evaluates the effectiveness of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in mitigating medical
overtreatment, a significant issue characterized by unnecessary interventions that inflate …

We exploit a large-scale natural experiment-the rollout of a nationwide electronic prescribing
system in Finland-to study how digitization of prescriptions affects pharmaceutical use and …