ArticleThe European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care2007
Variations in activity and practice patterns: a French study for GPs.
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- Factors contributing to the variation in antibiotic prescribing among primary health care physicians: a systematic review.BMC primary care · 2024Pooled it
- Predicting medical practices using various risk attitude measures.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2018Article
- Gender-specific practice styles and ambulatory health care expenditures.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2017Article
- Improving incidence estimation in practice-based sentinel surveillance networks using spatial variation in general practitioner density.BMC medical research methodology · 2016Article
- Gender differences in French GPs' activity: the contribution of quantile regressions.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2015Article
- Constructing taxonomies to identify distinctive forms of primary healthcare organizations.ISRN family medicine · 2013Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo identify the different practice profiles of general practitioners (GPs) in order to test the hypothesis of heterogeneity in physician behaviour. DATA: For the year 2000, 4,660 GPs from two regions in France. VARIABLES: volume and structure of the physicians' medical activity, income level, personal characteristics, socioeconomic and geographical environment, characteristics of their patients.
methodsA cluster analysis to identify different practice profiles and a regression analysis to display the determinants of the physicians' activity.
resultsFour different homogeneous groups can be identified, each one associating a physician's level of activity to his socioeconomic status. The level and the intensity of medical activity depend on individual factors, patients' characteristics as well as the socioeconomic context.
conclusionsThere is no uniformity in the way GPs practice medicine. An immediate consequence is that any cost-containment measure that is applied uniformly to all GPs inevitably results in different outcomes according to the physicians' category type.
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