Physician benchmarking: Measuring variation in practice behavior in treatment of otitis media

Health Care Management Science

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 5-17

  Ozcan, Yasar A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COST CONTROL; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; OTITIS MEDIA; PATIENT CARE; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

BENCHMARKING; COST SAVINGS; EPISODE OF CARE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; OTITIS MEDIA; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; VIRGINIA;

EID: 0032148834     PISSN: 13869620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1019026114859     Document Type: Article

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