Strategies for Reducing Medical Costs by Changing Physicians' Behavior: Efficacy and Impact on Quality of Care

Variations in Medical Care among Small Areas

1982 • 845 citations

Small-Area Variations in the Use of Common Surgical Procedures: An International Comparison of New England, England, and Norway

1982 • 826 citations

Dealing With Medical Practice Variations: A Proposal for Action

1984 • 718 citations

The Usefulness of Preoperative Laboratory Screening

1985 • 487 citations

Health Maintenance Organizations: Dimensions of Performance.

1982 • 353 citations

How Do Health-Maintenance Organizations Achieve Their “Savings”?

1978 • 302 citations

Physician utilization. The state of research about physicians' practice patterns.

1985 • 300 citations

A Trial of Two Strategies to Modify the Test-Ordering Behavior of Medical Residents

1980 • 297 citations

Surgical Manpower

1970 • 281 citations

Medical Technology — A Different View of the Contentious Debate over Costs

1979 • 275 citations

Variations in the Incidence of Surgery

1969 • 267 citations

Rationing Intensive Care — Physician Responses to a Resource Shortage

1983 • 237 citations

Cost Containment and Changing Physicians' Practice Behavior

1981 • 231 citations

Use of Laboratory Tests and Pharmaceuticals

1973 • 195 citations

Physician Utilization

1985 • 172 citations

Use of the Laboratory in a Teaching Hospital

1971 • 169 citations

An educational program to modify laboratory use by house staff

1977 • 163 citations

The failure of physician education as a cost containment strategy. Report of a prospective controlled trial at a university hospital

1984 • 154 citations

Hysterectomy: variations in rates across small areas and across physicians' practices.

1984 • 148 citations

Effect of Surveillance on the Number of Hysterectomies in the Province of Saskatchewan

1977 • 142 citations

Continuing Education and Patient Care Research

1967 • 140 citations

The Impact of Routine Admission Chest X-Ray Films on Patient Care

1985 • 130 citations

Determinants of medical care utilization: physicians' use of laboratory services.

1972 • 122 citations

Negative selection of patients for dialysis and transplantation in the United Kingdom.

1984 • 120 citations

Ultilization of clinical chemistry services by medical house staff. An analysis

1974 • 117 citations

Computer-based Audit to Detect and Correct Overutilization of Laboratory Tests

1977 • 117 citations

The Failure of Physician Education as a Cost Containment Strategy

1984 • 108 citations

Use of Laboratory Tests in a Teaching Hospital: Long-Term Trends

1979 • 108 citations

A Review of Physician Cost-Containment Strategies for Laboratory Testing

1983 • 102 citations

A New Audit Procedure Applied to an Old Question: Is the Frequency of T&A Justified?

1977 • 97 citations

Rationing Hospital Care

1984 • 94 citations

A Study of Prescribing Patterns

1971 • 81 citations

Treatment of Acute Pulmonary Edema: Conventional or Intensive Care?

1972 • 80 citations

Effect of Cost Education, Cost Audits, and Faculty Chart Review on the Use of Laboratory Services

1983 • 79 citations

Physician Use of Services for the Hospitalized Patient: A Review, with Implications for Cost Containment

1981 • 76 citations

Pleuropericarditis: An Extraintestinal Complication of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

1983 • 76 citations

A controlled trial to decrease the unnecessary use of diagnostic tests

1986 • 72 citations

Utilization of Clinical Chemistry Services by Medical House Staff

1974 • 72 citations

Western European Responses to Physician Oversupply

1984 • 70 citations

Effects of an educational feedback strategy on physician utilization of thyroid function panels.

1979 • 70 citations

The Role of Changing Clinical Practices in the Rising Costs of Hospital Care

1985 • 68 citations

The Clinical Value of the Upper Gastrointestinal

1980 • 68 citations

Effect of Medical Care Review on the Use of Injections

1976 • 59 citations

Cost Containment and Labor-Intensive Tests

1984 • 43 citations

Teaching cost containment to house officers at Charlotte Memorial Hospital

1979 • 38 citations

Clinical Laboratory Use in the Evaluation of Anemia

1977 • 37 citations

Health Maintenance Organizations: Dimensions of Performance

1981 • 29 citations

A Comparison of Ambulatory Test Ordering for Hypertensive Patients in the United States and England

1984 • 26 citations

Continuing education and patient care research. Physician response to screening test results

1967 • 24 citations

Manitoba Barium Enema Efficacy Study

1978 • 20 citations

Utilization of a Hematology Laboratory in a Teaching Hospital

1973 • 12 citations

A comparison of Western European and US University hospitals. A case report from Leuven, West Berlin, Leiden, London, and San Francisco.

1984 • 12 citations

Can patient care audit change doctor performance?

1975 • 11 citations

Physicianʼs orders, use of nursing resources, and subsequent clinical events

1978 • 7 citations

The costs and risks of medical care: an annotated bibliography for clinicians and educators.

1982 • 7 citations

Which hospital services are most overused? Results from a medical audit.

1985 • 6 citations

A Comparison of Western European and US University Hospitals

1984 • 6 citations