Physician practice size and variations in treatments and outcomes: Evidence from medicare patients with AMI

Health Affairs

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 195-205

  Ketcham, Jonathan D ^a   Baker, Laurence C ^b   MacIsaac, Donna ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; GROUP PRACTICE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MALE; MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL FEE; MEDICAL STAFF; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIVATE PRACTICE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEE-FOR-SERVICE PLANS; FEMALE; GROUP PRACTICE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE MANAGEMENT, MEDICAL; PRIVATE PRACTICE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846701656     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 02782715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.26.1.195     Document Type: Article

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