What's behind the white coat: Potential mechanisms of physician-attributable variation in critical care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Critical care intensity is known to vary across regions and centers, yet the mechanisms remain unidentified. Physician behaviors have been implicated in the variability of intensive care near the end of life, but physician characteristics that may underlie this association have not been determined.

Purpose

We sought to identify behavioral attributes that vary among intensivists to generate hypotheses for mechanisms of intensivist-attributable variation in critical care delivery.

Methods

We administered a questionnaire to intensivists who participated in a prior cohort study in which intensivists made prognostic estimates. We evaluated the degree to which scores on six attribute measures varied across intensivists. Measures were selected for their relevance

SUBMITTER: Yadav KN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6522043 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature