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Does Surgeon Sex Matter?: Practice Patterns and Outcomes of Female and Male Surgeons

Annals of Surgery, 2017
Objective:We sought to compare postoperative outcomes of female surgeons (FS) and male surgeons (MS) within general surgery. Summary of Background Data:FS in the workforce are increasing in number.
C. Sharoky, M. Sellers, L. Keele, Christopher Wirtalla, G. Karakousis, Jon B. Morris, R. Kelz   +6 more
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Physician Practice Patterns Under Hospital Rate-Setting Programs [PDF]

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1984
Earlier studies of hospital rate-setting programs have focused primarily on their ability to contain the growth in hospital utilization and expenditures. While most analysts recognize the central role physicians play in influencing health care utilization and expenditures, regulatory programs have been directed primarily at the hospital.
Edmund R. Becker, Catherine Sreckovich, Robert A. Musacchio, E. Kathleen Adams, Stephen Zuckerman   +4 more
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Management of female sexual problems: perceived barriers, practice patterns, and confidence among primary care physicians and gynecologists.

Journal of Sexual Medicine, 2010
INTRODUCTION Although approximately 40% of women report female sexual problems--and particularly sexual desire disorders, there are numerous practical, professional, and personal barriers to their diagnosis and management by treating clinicians. AIM To
M. Abdolrasulnia, R. Shewchuk, Nancy Roepke, U. S. Granstaff, J. Dean, Jill A. Foster, Andrew T. Goldstein, L. Casebeer   +7 more
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Focus on quality: Profiling physiciansʼ practice patterns

Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, 1994
This article presents a physician practice profiling system developed using Medicare data to evaluate the quality of care provided by primary care physicians. We discuss four attributes to physicians' practice profiles that make them useful for quality improvement: flexibility, user involvement in developing profiles, explicit plans for evaluation, and
Deborah W. Garnick, Jinnet B. Fowles, Jonathan P. Weiner, Steve T. Parente, R. Heather Palmer, Ann G. Lawthers   +5 more
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A SURVEY OF CLINICAL PRACTICE PATTERNS IN MANAGEMENT OF GRAVES DISEASE IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA.

Endocrine Practice, 2017
OBJECTIVE Graves disease (GD) is commonly seen in endocrine clinical practice. The objective of this study was to evaluate the current diagnosis and management of patients with GD in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). METHODS An electronic survey
S. Beshyah, Aly B Khalil, I. Sherif, M. Benbarka, S. Raza, W. Hussein, A. Alzahrani, A. Chadli   +7 more
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HIV/AIDS care giving physicians: their experience and practice patterns

International Journal of STD & AIDS, 1997
To identify associations between HIV-related experience and patterns of service provision, physicians across Canada were solicited by mail to register in a national network of HIV/AIDS care givers. Respondents provided data about: personal, demographic and practice characteristics; the number of HIV-positive patients ever seen; the nature of the HIV ...
Katherine V. Heath, Robert S. Hogg, Michael V. O'Shaughnessy, Benita Yip, Gerry Bally   +4 more
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Adjuvant Therapy for Breast Cancer: Practice Patterns of Community Physicians

Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2002
PURPOSE: We evaluated the use of adjuvant therapy for breast cancer using the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Consensus Development Conference statements as guideposts for assessing how rapidly community physicians adopt recommended therapies. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Women with stage I through IIIA breast cancer diagnosed in 1987 through 1991 and ...
Linda C. Harlan, Rachel Ballard-Barbash, Jennifer Stevens, Lin Clegg, Jeffrey S. Abrams, Joan L. Warren   +5 more
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Physician Profiling -- An Analysis of Inpatient Practice Patterns in Florida and Oregon

New England Journal of Medicine, 1994
Physician profiling is a method of cost control that focuses on patterns of care instead of on specific clinical decisions. It is one cost-control method that takes into account physicians' desire to curb the intrusion of administrative mechanisms into the clinical encounter.
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Primary care physicians' practice patterns and diabetic retinopathy. Current levels of care.

Archives of Family Medicine, 1997
BACKGROUND Diabetic retinopathy is a costly and prevalent complication of diabetes mellitus. OBJECTIVE To assess primary care physicians' self-reported practice patterns for the screening and detection of diabetic retinopathy relative to published ...
S. K. Kraft, David G. Marrero, Emmanuel N. Lazaridis, Naomi S. Fineberg, Chunfu Qiu, Charles M. Clark   +5 more
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Practice Patterns of Infectious Disease Physicians for Management of Meningococcal Disease

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 2012
Although empiric treatment regimens for acute bacterial meningitis are well established, there are many uncertainties regarding management of meningococcal disease. A survey was conducted among infectious disease specialists to assess meningococcal disease practice patterns and availability of antimicrobial susceptibility testing for Neisseria ...
Thomas A. Clark, Andrew Terranella, Henry M. Wu, Philip M. Polgreen, Susan E. Beekmann, Amanda C. Cohn   +5 more
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