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From: Effects of systematic asymmetric discounting on physician-patient interactions: a theoretical framework to explain poor compliance with lifestyle counseling

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The impact of discount rate differences between patients and physicians is large for outcomes that occur in the distant future. For short periods of time and typical discount rates, discounting does not result in much difference in the value assigned by patients and physicians to future health states. For longer times, as might be involved in decisions reflecting life-style changes, even small differences in discount rate between patients and physicians result in large differences in the value assigned to future health states.

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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

ISSN: 1472-6947

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