Open AccessThe problem of diagnostic variability in general practice.
Author(s) -
D. L. Crombie,
K. W. Cross,
Douglas Fleming
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of epidemiology and community health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.692
H-Index - 170
eISSN - 1470-2738
pISSN - 0143-005X
DOI - 10.1136/jech.46.4.447
Subject(s) - medicine , allowance (engineering) , medical diagnosis , census , general practice , demography , family medicine , variation (astronomy) , pediatrics , population , environmental health , mechanical engineering , pathology , sociology , engineering , physics , astrophysics
The aim was to examine the scale, source, and relevance of variation between general practices in respect of the rates with which patients consulted with illnesses falling in each of several diagnostic groups.
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