Rationality, practice variation and person‐centred health policy: a threshold hypothesis
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Rationality, practice variation and person‐centred health policy: a threshold hypothesis
Variation in practice of medicine is one of the major health policy issues of today. Ultimately, it is related to physicians' decision making. Similar patients with similar likelihood of having disease are often managed by different doctors differently: some doctors may elect to observe the patient, others decide to act based on diagnostic testing and yet others may elect to treat without testi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1356-1294,1365-2753
DOI: 10.1111/jep.12486