Variations Research
The Physician Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9100964 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Earl P Steinberg (Johns Hopkins University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | supplement |
| Pages | YS86-YS88 |
| Publication date | 1993-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Care (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0025-7079 • E-ISSN: 1537-1948 |
| Publisher | Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1097/00005650-199305001-00014 |
| PMID | 8492593 |
| OpenAlex | W1986932509 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
Early research on variations in clinical practice highlighted substantial differences in the rate at which various surgical procedures were done in different locations.1 Since then, the focus of variations research has expanded to include the analysis of variations in other aspects of the content of care, such as the rate of hospital admissions for particular diagnoses, the length and cost of such hospital stays, the frequency with which patients are seen in physicians' offices for particular clinical problems, and the rate at which primary care physicians refer patients for specialty and subspecialty evaluations. These types of variations analyses
Family medicine · Medical diagnosis · Pathology · Specialty · Subspecialty · Healthcare Policy and Management · Medical Coding and Health Information · Medicine · Primary Care and Health Outcomes
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |