A Quantitative Observational Study of Physician Influence on Hospital Costs

• Päätekijät: Herbert Wong PhD (Tekijä), Zeynal Karaca PhD (Tekijä), Teresa B. Gibson PhD (Tekijä)
• Aineistotyyppi: Kirja
• Julkaistu: SAGE Publishing, 2018-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Aiheet: article
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Physicians serve as the nexus of treatment decision-making in hospitalized patients; however, little empirical evidence describes the influence of individual physicians on hospital costs. In this study, we examine the extent to which hospital costs vary across physicians and physician characteristic...