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Medical Practice Variation Among Primary Care Physicians: 1 Decade, 14 Health Services, and 3,238,498 Patient-Years

Sagi Shashar, Moriah Ellen, Shlomi Codish, Ehud Davidson and Victor Novack
The Annals of Family Medicine January 2021, 19 (1) 30-37; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.2627
Sagi Shashar
1Clinical Research Center, Soroka University Medical Center and Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel
MSc
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Moriah Ellen
2Department of Health Systems Management, Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management and Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel
5Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
6McMaster Health Forum, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Shlomi Codish
3Soroka University Medical Center and Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel
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Ehud Davidson
4General Management, Clalit Health Services, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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Victor Novack
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vol. 19 no. 1 30-37
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.2627
PubMed 
33431388

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The Annals of Family Medicine
Print ISSN 
1544-1709
Online ISSN 
1544-1717
History 
  • Received for publication May 24, 2019
  • Revision received July 14, 2020
  • Accepted for publication July 24, 2020
  • Published online January 11, 2021.

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  1. Sagi Shashar, MSc1,
  2. Moriah Ellen, PhD2,5,6,
  3. Shlomi Codish, MD, MPH3,
  4. Ehud Davidson, MD4,* and
  5. Victor Novack, MD, PhD1⇑*
  1. 1Clinical Research Center, Soroka University Medical Center and Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel
  2. 2Department of Health Systems Management, Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management and Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel
  3. 3Soroka University Medical Center and Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel
  4. 4General Management, Clalit Health Services, Tel-Aviv, Israel
  5. 5Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  6. 6McMaster Health Forum, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
  1. CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Victor Novack Clinical Research Center Soroka University Medical Center PO Box 151 Be'er-Sheva, 84101 Israel victorno{at}clalit.org.il

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