Practice variation in the use of tests in UK primary care: a retrospective analysis of 16 million tests performed over 3.3 million patient years in 2015/16

BACKGROUND: The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is currently subject to unprecedented financial strain. The identification of unnecessary healthcare resource use has been suggested to reduce spending. However, there is little very research quantifying wasteful test use, despite the £3 billion ann...

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Autores principales: O’Sullivan, Jack W., Stevens, Sarah, Oke, Jason, Hobbs, F. D. Richard, Salisbury, Chris, Little, Paul, Goldacre, Ben, Bankhead, Clare, Aronson, Jeffrey K., Heneghan, Carl, Perera, Rafael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6300913/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30567539
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1217-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6300913/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30567539
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1217-1

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