Associations between physician characteristics and quality of care

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 1442-1449

  Reid, Rachel O ^a   Friedberg, Mark W ^c   Adams, John L ^c   McGlynn, Elizabeth A ^c   Mehrotra, Ateev ^b,c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CERTIFICATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; AGED; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; MIDDLE AGED; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 77956894295     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.307     Document Type: Article

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