Does quality affect patients' choice of doctors? Evidence from the UK - Discussion.

Summary This talk discusses Santos et al.'s article on the responsiveness of patients' choice of doctor to variations in doctors/practices quality. It emphasises various measurement issues regarding what is defined as the "quality of a doctor", as well as identification problems with the use of mixed multinomial logit models for modelling health care demand (endogeneity of quality indicators, endogeneity of doctors' choice of location).