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Is there much variation in variation? Revisiting statistics of small area variation in health services research
BACKGROUND: The importance of Small Area Variation Analysis for policy-making contrasts with the scarcity of work on the validity of the statistics used in these studies. Our study aims at 1) determining whether variation in utilization rates between health areas is higher than would be expected by...
Autores principales: | Ibáñez, Berta, Librero, Julián, Bernal-Delgado, Enrique, Peiró, Salvador, López-Valcarcel, Beatriz González, Martínez, Natalia, Aizpuru, Felipe |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2009
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2676262/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19341469 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-9-60 |
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