Strategies to reduce variation in the use of surgery

The Lancet

Volumn 382, Issue 9898, 2013, Pages 1130-1139

  McCulloch, Peter ^a   Nagendran, Myura ^a   Campbell, W Bruce ^c   Price, Andrew ^b   Jani, Anant ^d   Birkmeyer, John D ^e   Gray, Muir ^d  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE   (United Kingdom)

^d QIPP Right Care Programme   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BREAST CANCER; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CESAREAN SECTION; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CORONARY ARTERY SURGERY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CRYOSURGERY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ENDOVASCULAR ANEURYSM REPAIR; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH INSURANCE; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HIP OSTEOARTHRITIS; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HOSPITAL FINANCE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL FEE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENORRHAGIA; METAL ON METAL JOINT PROSTHESIS; MINOR SURGERY; MORBIDITY; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT PREFERENCE; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; SPINAL CORD SURGERY; SURGERY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TRAINING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; VAGINAL DELIVERY; VERRUCA VULGARIS;

EID: 84884639888     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61216-7     Document Type: Review

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