Consistency in performance among primary care practitioners

Medical Care

Volumn 34, Issue 9 SUPPL., 1996, Pages

  Palmer, R Heather ^a   Wright, Elizabeth A ^b   Orav, E John ^a   Hargraves, J Lee ^a   Louis, Thomas A ^c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Outliers; Performance measurement; Practice guidelines; Primary care; Profiling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION TREE; EDUCATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GROUP PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; BOSTON; CHILD; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DECISION TREES; GROUP PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES;

EID: 0030240368     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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