Learning by doing, scale effects, or neither? Cardiac surgeons after residency

Health Services Research

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1960-1982

  Huesch, Marco D ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac surgery; Instruments; Learning by doing; Panel models; Scale economies

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MORTALITY; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANEL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROBABILITY; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCALE UP; STATISTICS; SURGEON; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

AGED; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DATABASES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHYSICIANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TEACHING; THORACIC SURGERY;

EID: 72849106384     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2009.01018.x     Document Type: Article

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