Observational studyBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2018
Association between physician
Observational study in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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15 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Medical school ranking and provider outpatient Medicare Part D claims for antibiotics among older patients in the USA.JAC-antimicrobial resistance · 2024Article
- Implications for neurosurgery of medical schools leaving the United States News and World Report.Neurosurgical review · 2024Article
- Examining the Role of Physician Characteristics in Web-Based Verified Primary Care Physician Reviews: Observational Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Observational
- Variation in academic neurosurgery departments' #neurosurgery social media influence.World neurosurgery: X · 2023Article
- Predictive value of medical school ranking in the academic scholarship of ophthalmology residents.Surgery open science · 2023Article
- The Association of Attending Physicians' Publications and Patients' Readmission Rates: Evidence from Tertiary Hospitals in China Using a Retrospective Data Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Research Reputation Rank of US Medical Schools Is Inversely Associated with Increased Competition Amongst Medical Students.Medical science educator · 2022Article
- Characteristics of First-Year Residents in Top-Ranked United States Ophthalmology Residency Programs.Journal of academic ophthalmology (2017) · 2022Article
- Uptake of evidence by physicians: De-adoption of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents after the TREAT trial.BMC nephrology · 2021Article
- Association between industry payments and prescriptions of long-acting insulin: An observational study with propensity score matching.PLoS medicine · 2021Observational
- Academic Rhinologists' Online Rating and Perception, Scholarly Productivity, and Industry Payments.American journal of rhinology & allergy · 2021Article
- Patient and provider-level factors associated with changes in utilization of treatments in response to evidence on ineffectiveness or harm.International journal of health economics and management · 2020Article
- Association between physician characteristics and payments from industry in 2015-2017: observational study.BMJ open · 2019Observational
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Abstract
objectiveTo investigate whether the
designObservational study.
settingMedicare, 2011-15.
participants20% random sample of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries aged 65 years or older (n=996 212), who were admitted as an emergency to hospital with a medical condition and treated by general internists.
main outcome measuresAssociation between the USNWR ranking of the medical school a physician attended and the physician's patient outcomes (30 day mortality and 30 day readmission rates) and Medicare Part B spending, adjusted for patient and physician characteristics and hospital fixed effects (which effectively compared physicians practicing within the same hospital). A sensitivity analysis employed a natural experiment by focusing on patients treated by hospitalists, because patients are plausibly randomly assigned to hospitalists based on their specific work schedules. Alternative rankings of medical schools based on social mission score or National Institute of Health (NIH) funding were also investigated.
results996 212 admissions treated by 30 322 physicians were examined for the analysis of mortality. When using USNWR primary care rankings, physicians who graduated from higher ranked schools had slightly lower 30 day readmission rates (adjusted rate 15.7% for top 10 schools
conclusionsOverall, little or no relation was found between the USNWR ranking of the medical school from which a physician graduated and subsequent patient mortality or readmission rates. Physicians who graduated from highly ranked medical schools had slightly lower spending than graduates of lower ranked schools.
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