Improving Practice

The Clinician's Role

Robert H. Brook

ResearchPosted on rand.org 1992Published in: British Journal of Surgery, v. 79, July 1992, p. 606-607

Based on RAND's research in the appropriateness area as well as on the Health Insurance Experiment, this article concludes that making health care reform meaningful will require changes at a clinical level. In particular, it urges physicians to try to improve the appropriateness and quality of their care no matter under which system of financial reward they work.

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  • Availability: Non-RAND
  • Year: 1992
  • Pages: 2
  • Document Number: EP-199207-01

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