Measuring the clinical appropriateness of the use of a procedure: Can we do it?

Medical Care

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1988, Pages 415-422

  Kahn, Katherine L ^a,b   Kosecoff, Jacqueline ^c   Chassin, Mark R ^a   Mary Frances, Flynn ^a   Fink, Arlene ^b   Pattaphongse, Nuntavarn ^b   Solomon, David H ^b   Brook, Robert H ^a,b  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Fink and Kosekoff Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical appropriateness; Upper gastroin testinal endoscopy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

DATA COLLECTION; ENDOSCOPY; EVALUATION STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMAN; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 0023989964     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-198804000-00010     Document Type: Article

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