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Shared Decision-Making for Medical Practice Variations in Elective Surgeries and Tests
One of the motivations for develo** patient decision aids is to improve decision quality and reduce unwarranted practice variations. Patient decision aids are designed to help patients discuss treatment opti...
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Practice Guidelines and Practice Variation: Diagnostic Technology in Maternity Care
One of the most common measures for reducing practice variation is the use of practice guidelines. They are meant to limit the use of services that are of little or questionable value and to increase the use o...
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Medical Practice Variations in End-of-Life Care
Across the world today, population aging is occurring at an unprecedented rate; the most rapidly growing are those aged 80 and over. This demographic trend highlights the growing demand of health care for the ...
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Medical Practice Variations in Heart Failure
There is substantial regional variation in hospitalization and mortality due to heart failure in the United States that is not explained by disease severity. Significant variation also exists in medical care f...
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Medical Practice Variations in Cancer Surgery
The treatment of cancer is multidisciplinary; however, surgeons take an active role in the care of most cancer patients. Variation in cancer surgery may occur because care is provided by many surgeons practici...
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Strategies and Tools to Manage Variation in Regional Governance Systems
The recent economic crisis has led to concerns about healthcare on two fronts: financial austerity may lead to increasing health disparities related to socioeconomic status, and the economic crisis has obliged...
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Medical Practice Variations in Diabetes Mellitus
Diabetes mellitus is a serious chronic health condition that has a global impact on both individuals and healthcare systems. In 2013, approximately 382 million people worldwide were living with diabetes, and i...
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Medical Practice Variations in Acute Myocardial Infarction
The incidence of and mortality from acute myocardial infarction (AMI) have declined over the past decade likely due to improvements in acute reperfusion management and preventative treatments. However, recent ...
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Medical Practice Variations in Joint Replacement in Patients with Osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most prevalent of musculoskeletal disorders and the most widespread of all the forms of arthritis, commonly affecting the knee and hip joints. It is a progressive disease caus...
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Medical Practice Variations in Elective Surgery
The study of variations in elective surgery may be considered a paradigm within the field of medical practice variations. It was the focus of the first seminal work on unwarranted variations where the initial ...
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Medical Practice Variations in Acute Care Hospitalization
Acute hospitals are the largest single component of health care budgets. Only a small percentage of the population encounters acute inpatient care in any given year, but these are the sites for the most intens...
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Medical Practice Variations in Stroke
Stroke is an important cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. It is crucial to reduce practice variation in stroke care by following and adhering to best practice guidelines and quality improvement initia...
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Medical Practice Variations in Emergency Services
This chapter explores the established literature on medical practice variation in urgent and emergency care. There are important differences between this area and studies of variation in elective care, primari...
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Dissonance-Based Eating Disorder Prevention Programs
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Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
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Variations in Healthcare Spending and Quality Among Institutions
Unwarranted institutional variations in healthcare spending and quality may indicate discrepancies in the quantity of services provided, management efficiency, and staff capability at the hospital level. Becau...
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Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID)
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Body Distortion: Perceptual Measurement of Body Image Disturbance
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Loss of Control Over Eating Scale
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Medical Practice Variations in Reproductive, Obstetric, and Gynaecological Care
In hospitals and practices that provide reproductive health services, there is still no consensus on the best way to diagnose and treat extensively studied clinical procedures. Procedures for surgery, screenin...
