The challenges of medical practice variations



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The challenges of medical practice variations / ed. by Tavs Folmer Andersen and Gavin Mooney. -- Hong Kong: MacMillan Press, 1990. x, 203 p. : il.; 23 cm. (Economic issues in health care)

1 Medical practice variations: where are we?. 2 Why do variations occur?. 3 Variations in outcomes reserch. 4 Medical decision making and practice variation. 5 EquiLty and variability in modern health care. 6 Measuring performance in the health care sector: the whys and the hows. 7 The dog in the night-time: medical practice variations and health policy. 8 Variations from a lay perspective. 9 On the need for autcomes research and the prospects for the evaluative clinical sciences. 10 Promoting clinical policy chage: using the art to promote the science in medicine. 11 Challenges facing modern health care.

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