Mapping medicine
Subtitle: the challenge of practice variations
By: John E. Wennberg.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199731787
Subjects: Outcome assessment (Medical care) -- United States; Medicine, Comparative -- United States; Regional medical programs -- United States; Health care reform -- United States; Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care) -- United States; Physician's Practice Patterns -- United States; Health Care Reform -- United States; Health Resources -- United States; Health Services Accessibility -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: In health care, geography is destiny; title: The Vermont experience; title: Tonsillectomy and medical opinion; title: Interpreting the pattern of surgical variation; title: Understanding the market for preference-sensitive surgery; title: Learning what works and what patients want; title: The birth and near death of comparative effectiveness research; title: Understanding supply-sensitive care; title: Chronic illness and practice variation; title: Is more better?; title: Are America's "best hospitals" really the best?; title: Ten top reasons why we need reform the way we manage chronic illness; title: Promoting organized care and reducing overuse; title: Establishing informed patient choice as a standard of care; title: Six ways to control cost, accelerate reform, and save the economy; title: The challenge of unwarranted variation.