TY - BOOK TI - The challenges of medical practice variations SN - 0333475089 U1 - 610 21 PY - 1990/// CY - Hong Kong PB - MacMillan Press KW - Atención médica KW - Gran Bretaña N1 - 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 ER -