Do subspecialists working outside of their specialty provide less efficient and lower-quality care to hospitalized patients than do primary care physicians?

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 162, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 527-532

  Weingarten, Scott R ^a,b   Lloyd, Lynne ^c   Chiou, Chiun Fang ^a   Braunstein, Glenn D ^b  

^a Zynx Health   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERNAL MEDICINE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0036190045     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.162.5.527     Document Type: Article

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