Evaluating individual surgeons based on total hospital costs: Evidence for variation in both total costs and volatility of costs

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 202, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 565-576

  Hall, Bruce L ^a,b,d   Campbell Jr , Darrell A ^c   Phillips, Laurel R S ^c   Hamilton, Barton H ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HOSPITALS   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; MICHIGAN; MISSOURI; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 33645286990     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2005.12.015     Document Type: Article

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