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Oct 27, 2025
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Jun 25, 2009
Explains the use and implementation of reliability measurement for quality measures in provider profiling in health care.
Apr 1, 2009
If the government is demanding transparency of physicians and hospitals, the very least the physicians and hospitals should do is demand transparency of the government, writes Robert Brook.
Jan 1, 2009
Examines the relative influence of patient-related factors and physician referral on mental health service utilization among patients after a traumatic physical injury.
Lower rates of lobectomy (resection of early-stage non-small-cell lung carcinomas) among older patients do not seem to be explained by age-related biases among surgeons for otherwise healthy patients.
Jan 1, 2007
Male physicians were less satisfied with data capabilities. Primary care physicians (versus specialists) were less satisfied with price competition.
Jan 1, 2003
Revealed an incongruity between parents' reported expectations, their communication behaviors, and physicians' perceptions of parents' expectations.
Physicians play an inescapable role in presenting and shaping health care decisions.
The organization and financing of medical practice has experienced substantial changes during the past decade.
Jan 1, 2001
The growth of managed care has been associated with a decrease in physicians' professional satisfaction.
Jan 1, 2000
Indirect control mechanisms such as guidelines and education were positively associated with satisfaction.
Jan 1, 1995
Describes a randomized trial designed to improve patients' quality of life through feedback to physicians about functional status.
Jan 1, 1982
As the supply of physicians grew during the 1970s, medical and surgical specialists diffused into smaller communities.
