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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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