The Rate of Adoption of New Procedures Among Physicians The Impact of Specialty and Practice Characteristics

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9103619
AutoresMarc P Freiman (Chestnut Hill College, autor de correspondencia)
Año1985
Volumen23
Número8
Páginas939-945
Fecha de publicación1985-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMedical Care (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0025-7079 • E-ISSN: 1537-1948
EditorialOvid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1097/00005650-198508000-00001
PMID4021579
OpenAlexW2079898404
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7

Four hundred eighty-four physicians were surveyed on the number of new procedures they adopted during a 1-year period. Clear differences were found among specialties. A simultaneous statistical analysis of factors affecting the adoption of new procedures yielded a number of additional significant relationships. Up to an age of approximately 50 years, age has an increasing impact on the number of new procedures adopted by physicians. Beyond that age, it has a decreasing effect. Board certified physicians tend to adopt more new procedures than physicians who are not board certified. Among those physicians in nonurban locations, those in solo practice adopt significantly fewer procedures than those in other practice modes. The implications of these findings for such issues as the rising costs of health care and physician reimbursement systems are discussed

Board certification · Certification · Family medicine · Health care · Management · Reimbursement · Residency training · Specialty · Healthcare Policy and Management · Medicine · Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare · Primary Care and Health Outcomes