书目名称 | Medical Practice Variations | 编辑 | Ana Johnson,Thérèse Stukel | 视频video | | 概述 | Synthesizes current research on variations in healthcare utilization, delivery and outcomes.Covers specific types of utilization such as inpatient care, emergency services, elective surgery, primary c | 丛书名称 | Health Services Research | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .Health services researchers have long been aware of large variations in the use of medical care across regions and medical providers. In the 1930s, the British pediatrician J.A. Glover observed that the rates of tonsillectomy in British schoolchildren varied widely, depending on the district where the students lived and the doctors who examined them. This volume provides a contextual landscape for the study of health care utilization through the lens of medical practice variations. It is grounded in the pioneering work by medical care epidemiologist, Dr. John Wennberg, who revealed wide variations in elective surgical rates across small areas in the U.S. and his findings that these variations were generally not explained by differences in population illness rates or patient preferences but rather, there were strong associations between supply of health care resources, such as hospital beds and physicians and health care utilization..This volume introduces the concept of medical practice variations and its early history, outlines established concepts and frameworks, with an overview of methods used to understand the variations in medical care. It makes the case for outcomes researc | 出版日期 | Living reference work 2020Latest edition | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7573-7 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4899-7573-7 | issn_series | 2511-8293 |
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