Sentence examples for doctor variation from inspiring English sources

It has been suggested that doctors working within the same hospital conform to the practice of immediate colleagues, resulting in smaller within doctor variation and larger within hospital variation[ 12].

Inter-doctor variation in diagnosis and/or treatment is found in different medical disciplines [ 3- 7].

Research identified different aspects that influence this inter-doctor variation between GPs and practices [ 8- 10].

If so, we can investigate if assessment behaviour can be influenced in order to limit systematic inter-doctor variation in the outcome of disability assessments.

In most networks, the information of an individual patient cannot be related to an individual doctor and therefore, inter-doctor variation cannot be assessed validly.

However, as our study is limited to deceased cancer patients, inter-doctor variation is less likely than would be the case in a study of all deceased patients.

Inter-doctor variation in ICPC coding of participating general practitioners was small and the level of agreement with external ICPC experts (n = 4) was on average 81% [ 15].

Other research also showed that inter-doctor variation in morbidity estimates remains high after adjusting for population and practice characteristics [ 25].

In earlier research, we identified the GP and practice characteristics as a probable factor of variation between morbidity estimates using GPRN data, also known as inter-doctor variation [ 5].

Inter-doctor variation is the variation in the frequency of diagnosing health problems between different health care providers, which cannot be explained by the patient characteristics (age, sex, severity of the disease) [ 7].

Such an analysis is a good and valid alternative if cause-specific death is not available and can sometimes even be more accurate than estimating cause-specific survival by using death certificates because the primary cause of death is often not clear and inter-doctor variation in the cause of death ascertainment is common.