Physician Practice Style and Rates of Hospitalization for Chronic Medical Conditions

Medical Care

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 594-609

  Komaromy, Miriam ^a,b,e   Lurie, Nicole ^c   Osmond, Dennis ^a,d   Vranizan, Karen ^a   Keane, Dennis ^a   Bindman, Andrew B ^a,b,d  

^a SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Primary Care Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Physician practice style; Small area variation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DECISION MAKING; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ASTHMA; CALIFORNIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES MISUSE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0030160453     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-199606000-00009     Document Type: Article

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