Physicians' Variation in Care: The Practical Balance of Warranted Versus Unwarranted Variation.

What it found

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Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Unwarranted clinical variation in health care: Definitions and proposal of an analytic framework.Journal of evaluation in clinical practice · 2020
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2. Risk orientation predicts hypoxic time during difficult airway simulation: a mixed-methods pilot study.BMJ simulation & technology enhanced learning · 2020
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3. The economic consequences of practice style variation in providing medical interventions: A systematic review of the literature.Journal of education and health promotion · 2019
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2 authors.

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