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Variation in Health Care Delivery: The Example of Exception Awards in Liver Transplantation
Author(s) -
Freeman Jr R. B.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
american journal of transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.89
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1600-6143
pISSN - 1600-6135
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2011.03740.x
Subject(s) - medicine , variation (astronomy) , liver transplantation , transplantation , healthcare delivery , health care , intensive care medicine , surgery , physics , astrophysics , economics , economic growth
On examining two studies exposing substantial variation in liver transplant exception awards, the author asks, how much variation in health care delivery is acceptable? See articles by Argo et al (page 2353) and Massie et al (page 2362).