Screen LibraryTracking medicine：a researcher's quest to understand health care
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2010. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xix, 319 p.: ill., map ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780199731787 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0199731780 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | R199 |
| CLC: | R199.712 |
| Call Number: | R199.712/W476 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. An introduction to the problem of unwarranted variation. In health care, geography is destiny -- The Vermont experience -- Surgical variation: understanding preference-sensitive care.Tonsillectomy and medical opinion -- Interpreting the pattern of surgical variation -- Understanding the market for preference-sensitive surgery -- Learning what works and what patients want -- The birth and near death of comparative effectiveness research -- Medical variation: understanding supply-sensitive care. Understanding supply-sensitive care. John Wennberg has spent his career illustrating how geography is destiny when it comes to health care. Local medical opinion and the supply of medical resources are as important to the level of medical care provided as are levels of actual illness, or patient preference. In this book, using evidence distilled from his own experience at the forefront of practice variation research, Wennberg makes the case for delivery science as a laying foundation in the rebuilding of our health care system.--[book jacket] |