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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Practice Variation"”.
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Investigating practice variation in a changing primary care. A multilevel perspective on The Skaraborg Primary Care Database
… have been explained through the concept of practice variation, that is, the occurrence of established local medical procedures that varies between geographic areas. The primary measures introduced to eliminate undesirable differences in medical care are the introduction of medical guidelines …
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Essays on health outcomes and physician practice variation within a public single hospital: the case of Malta
… between health care outcomes, physician practice patterns and individual physician characteristics within a very specific and particular health care sector, the health care sector on the Islands of Malta. Chapter 2 focuses on the appropriateness of introducing a Diagnosis Related Group …
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Midwifery practice in the third stage of labour.
This thesis investigated practice variation among midwives during the third stage of labour. The study aimed to identify and explain the variety of ways midwives managed the third stage and to see if it was possible to identify midwife characteristics associated with different third stage …
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Understanding therapeutic traditions in a multilevel framework - new methodological approaches
… from one health care setting to another, i.e., practice variation, have been recognized in numerous studies. The variations across the health care settings have been shown to exist for different outcomes. However, any measurement of any system will reveal some form of variation and this normal …
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Preoperative Internal Medicine Consultation for Elective Intermediate-to-high Risk Noncardiac Surgery in Ontario
… to evaluate the outcomes, processes-of-care and practice variation associated with preoperative medical consultation in Ontario, Canada. First, a multicentre cross-sectional study was conducted to develop a novel algorithm for identifying preoperative medical consultations using administrative …
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Antipsychotic prescribing as a treatment of dementia in British Columbia: physician-level characteristics associated with receiving potentially inappropriate prescriptions
… an antipsychotic. A physician’s years in practice was significantly associated with a patient’s risk of receiving an antipsychotic. Patients who received an antipsychotic were older, had lower incomes, used more prescriptions, contacted a physician more, and had higher comorbidity scores …
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Practice Patterns and Health Outcomes of Adjuvant Oxaliplatin Chemotherapy for Colorectal Cancer
… questions regarding how these findings changed practice, whether these outcomes are obtained in the general population, and – given oxaliplatin-induced neuropathy – the relationship between treatment duration and post-treatment falls. METHODS: We leveraged linked administrative and …
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Essays in the sociology of autism diagnosis
… by prior locally-institutionalized practices and result in stable practice variation. The second analysis examines the role of patients in medical diagnosis. Patients are increasingly taking an active role in medical decision making and exerting subtle influence on the decisions of …
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Management accounting system changes : a case study of a family controlled bank
… family members mobilise resources to influence variations in the level of implementation and extent of MAS control(s) in subsidiary firms (where there is strong family presence in management) lending credence to the notion of practice variation framework in institutional theory. Keywords: …
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Ecology and emergence: Understanding factors that drive variation in process quality and clinical outcomes in general practice
Clinical practice variation (CPV), where differences in healthcare delivery do not reflect differences in patient preferences or clinical need, is considered a hallmark of poor quality care. 'Unwarranted' variation is the focus of mounting policy attention and a growing body of literature, but …
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Ecology and emergence: Understanding factors that drive variation in process quality and clinical outcomes in general practice
Clinical practice variation (CPV), where differences in healthcare delivery do not reflect differences in patient preferences or clinical need, is considered a hallmark of poor quality care. 'Unwarranted' variation is the focus of mounting policy attention and a growing body of literature, but …
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Essays on Mathematical Modeling and Empirical Investigations of Organizational Learning in Cancer Research
After numerous renewals and reignitions since the initiation of the "War on Cancer" more than five decades ago, the recent reignition of "Moonshot to Cure Cancer" points to the systemic persistence of cancer as a major cause of loss of life and livelihood. Literature points to the diminishing …