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SUBMITTER: Lipitz-Snyderman A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5363077 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lipitz-Snyderman Allison A Sima Camelia S CS Atoria Coral L CL Elkin Elena B EB Anderson Christopher C Blinder Victoria V Tsai Chiaojung Jillian CJ Tsai Chiaojung Jillian CJ Panageas Katherine S KS Bach Peter B PB
JAMA internal medicine 20161001 10
<h4>Importance</h4>Interventions to address overuse of health care services may help reduce costs and improve care. Understanding physician-level variation and behavior patterns can inform such interventions.<h4>Objective</h4>To assess patterns of physician ordering of services that tend to be overused in the treatment of patients with cancer. We hypothesized that physicians exhibit consistent behavior.<h4>Design, setting, and participants</h4>Retrospective study of patients 66 years and older d ...[more]