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; Victor Novack

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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

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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

1Clinical Research Center, Soroka University Medical Center and Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel

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For correspondence: victorno@clalit.org.il

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