Do doctors under-provide, over-provide or do both? Exploring the quality of medical treatment in the Philippines
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Do doctors under-provide, over-provide or do both? Exploring the quality of medical treatment in the Philippines.
OBJECTIVE To assess the quality of medical treatment by disaggregating quality into components that distinguish between insufficient and unnecessary care. DESIGN Randomly selected doctors were asked how they would treat a sick child. Their responses were disaggregated into how much of an evidence-based essential treatment plan was completed and the number of additional non-essential treatment...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal for Quality in Health Care
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1353-4505,1464-3677
DOI: 10.1093/intqhc/mzr029