Determinants of Medical Practice Variation Among Primary Care Physicians: Protocol for a Three Phase Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

One of the greatest challenges of modern health systems is the choice and use of resources needed to diagnose and treat patients. Medical practice variation (MPV) is a broad term which entails the differences between health care providers inclusive of both the overuse and underuse. In this paper, we describe a 3-phase research protocol examining MPV in primary care.

Objective

We aim to identify the potential targets for behavioral modification interventions to reduce the variation in practice patterns and thus improve health care, decrease costs, and prevent disparities in care.

Methods

The first phase will delineate the variation in primary care practice over a wide range of services and long follow-up period (2003-2017), the second will examine the 3 dete

SUBMITTER: Shashar S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7609196 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature