书目名称 | Medical Practice Variations | 编辑 | Ana Johnson,Thérèse A. Stukel | 视频video | | 概述 | Raises critical concerns about the quality, equity and efficiency of international health care resources.Synthesizes current research on variations in healthcare utilization, delivery and outcomes.Out | 丛书名称 | Health Services Research | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .This title deals with internationally documented .variations. in. .medical practice. and health service that exist across countries as well as regions across a specific country. .Such variations. .raise critical concerns about the quality, equity and efficiency of health care resources across the world. 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 hospi | 出版日期 | Reference work 2016 | 关键词 | Health Care Utilization; Health Policy Reform; Health Services Research; Medical Care Epidemiology; Outc | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7603-1 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4899-7603-1Series ISSN 2511-8293 Series E-ISSN 2511-8307 | issn_series | 2511-8293 | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016 |
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