Do patient, physician, and hospital characteristics affect appropriateness and outcome of selected procedures?
By: Robert H. Brook ... [et al.].
Contributors: Brook, Robert H. 1943-; Rand/UCLA Health Services Utilization Study.; American Association of Retired Persons.
Publisher: Rand
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Santa Monica, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 29
Subjects: Coronary arteries -- Surgery -- United States -- Evaluation.; Endarterectomy -- United States -- Evaluation.; Angiocardiography -- United States -- Evaluation.; Endoscopy -- United States -- Evaluation.; Medical care -- Utilization review -- United States.; Surgical indications.; Clinical indications.; Angiography -- utilization -- United States.; Coronary Vessels -- radiography.; Endarterectomy -- utilization -- United States.; Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal -- utilization -- United States.; Hospitals -- utilization -- United States.; Physician's Practice Patterns.; Quality of Health Care -- United States.; Utilization Review.
Other titles: New England journal of medicine.; Annals of internal medicine.
Description: This report contains two separate but related reports. Both use data from the RAND/UCLA Health Services Utilization Study (HSUS) supplemented by additional data on patient, physician, and hospital characteristics. One relates these additional data to the appropriateness with which the three HSUS procedures (coronary angiography, upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, and carotid endarterectomy) were performed. The other relates the additional data to the incidence of adverse outcomes for one of the procedures (carotid endarterectomy). These papers are reprinted from the New England Journal of Medicine and the Annals of Internal Medicine, together with additional appendix material explaining methods in more detail and presenting alternative estimates by way of sensitivity analysis.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Reprints of two papers that appeared in the New England journal of medicine and the Annals of internal medicine.
The data used is from the RAND/UCLA Health Services Utilization Study supplemented by additional data.
Supported by the American Association of Retired Persons and others.
"R-3929-AARP/CWF/HF/HCFA/PMT/RWJ/RC."
"Rand library collection"--Label on cover.