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Comparisons of direct outpatient and inpatient expenditures of veterans at 18 VA-staffed CBOCs and 14 VAMCs showed that CBOC patients had lower specialty and total expenditures than VAMC patients, but similar primary care and inpatient expenditures [ 5].
CBOC patients had lower odds of one or more specialty, mental health, ancillary visits and hospital stays per year, and fewer numbers of visits and stays if they had any and lower specialty, mental health, ancillary and inpatient expenditures (all, p < 0.0001).
Time and travel costs incurred for accessing CBOCs and VAMCs might have been an important factor contributing to lower specialty visits and expenditures of CBOC patients, because distance has shown to be an important determinant of veterans' services use in other studies [ 17- 19].
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In addition, the patient readmission rate was lower for specialty hospitals than general hospitals.
Therefore such a simple solution may not be adequate for increasing the number of residents applying to and entering what are currently considered lower paid specialties.
A US study of 4975 family practitioners which compared two study periods (1991 1995 and 2001 2003) reported that lower risk specialties in the USA, including family practice, saw a reduction in malpractice claims from 8.3%to5.8%8.3%to5.8%
While women on average do choose lower-paying specialties and shorter workweeks than men, those disparities were less pronounced in 2008 than in 1999.
It has survived in part because Mr. Steinle and his son Grant focused on lower-volume specialties — like black-and-white and print-to-print developing, and, in the early '90s, the processing of Kodachrome.
Women often choose the lower-paying specialties like family practice and pediatrics, he says, which brings down the pay average.
That adds up to very sobering financial prospects for doctors interested in the profession's lower-paying specialties.
Women often go into family practice or other lower-paying specialties, she says, rather than work the 80-hour-plus weeks of surgeons.
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