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Kavosi Z, Bayati M, Arefnezhad M, et al. Effect of Cost Sharing on Utilization of General Physician Care: A Cross-Sectional Survey from Shiraz, Iran. Int J Prev Med. 2018;9:96doi: 10.4103/ijpvm.IJPVM_133_16.
Kavosi, Z., Bayati, M., Arefnezhad, M., Rad, E. H., & Jaafari, A. (2018). Effect of Cost Sharing on Utilization of General Physician Care: A Cross-Sectional Survey from Shiraz, Iran. International journal of preventive medicine, 996. https://doi.org/10.4103/ijpvm.IJPVM_133_16
Kavosi, Zahra, et al. "Effect of Cost Sharing on Utilization of General Physician Care: A Cross-Sectional Survey from Shiraz, Iran." International journal of preventive medicine vol. 9 (2018): 96. doi: https://doi.org/10.4103/ijpvm.IJPVM_133_16
Kavosi Z, Bayati M, Arefnezhad M, Rad EH, Jaafari A. Effect of Cost Sharing on Utilization of General Physician Care: A Cross-Sectional Survey from Shiraz, Iran. Int J Prev Med. 2018 Nov 05;9:96. doi: 10.4103/ijpvm.IJPVM_133_16. eCollection 2018. PMID: 30533208; PMCID: PMC6238355.
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Int J Prev Med. 2018 Nov 05;9:96. doi: 10.4103/ijpvm.IJPVM_133_16. eCollection 2018.

Effect of Cost Sharing on Utilization of General Physician Care: A Cross-Sectional Survey from Shiraz, Iran.

International journal of preventive medicine

Zahra Kavosi, Mohsen Bayati, Masoud Arefnezhad, Enayatollah Homaie Rad, Abdosaleh Jaafari

Affiliations

  1. Health Human Resource Research Center, School of Management and Information Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
  2. Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran.

PMID: 30533208 PMCID: PMC6238355 DOI: 10.4103/ijpvm.IJPVM_133_16

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: High-cost sharing in physician care may result in worse health outcomes and financial burdens for individuals, and it reduces needed health-care utilization. Hence, this study examines the impact of cost sharing on utilization of Physician care.

METHODS: In the present study, multistage sampling (

RESULTS: People who have high-cost sharing had used general physician services much less, so that ratio of incidence among them was 0.18 less than individuals with low-cost sharing (

CONCLUSIONS: A low cost-sharing policy would remove the clinically and financial threat from the patient decision-making so as to provide them with access to needed care.

Keywords: Cost sharing; general physician; health

Conflict of interest statement

There are no conflicts of interest.

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