Relation between Surgeons' Practice Volumes and Geographic Variation in the Rate of Carotid Endarterectomy
- 7 September 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 321 (10), 653-657
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198909073211006
Abstract
We examined the relation between the number of operative procedures carried out by individual surgeons and the variation in the rate of carotid endarterectomy among Medicare beneficiaries in areas of high, average, and low use of the procedure in 1981. Rates ranged from 48 per 100,000 in the low-use area to 178 per 100,000 in the high-use area.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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