Physicians Who Own Their Own Diagnostic Testing Facilities Tend to Order

question 2

Multiple Choice

Physicians who own their own diagnostic testing facilities tend to order more tests, charge higher fees for them, and have higher total bills to patients.This practice of self-referral is an example of

• A)moral hazard.
• B)adverse selection.
• C)res ipsa loquitor.
• D)physician-induced demand.
• E)cognitive dissonance.

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Definitions:

Degrees of Freedom

Degrees of freedom refer to the number of values in a statistical calculation that are free to vary without violating the constraints of the calculation.

Population Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variability within a population data set, indicating how spread out the data points are from the mean.

Interval Estimate

An estimate of a population parameter that gives an interval believed to contain the parameter.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution without violating any constraints.