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Variations in medical care and the concept of inappropriate care are largely driven by professional uncertainty and differences in physicians' beliefs about the value of medical procedures. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.SYNTHESIS. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

What question did this study set out to answer?

To examine the drivers of wide variations in medical practice and analyze how physician beliefs contribute to the delivery of inappropriate care.

July 22, 1988JAMA

What Is Inappropriate Care?

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To examine the drivers of wide variations in medical practice and analyze how physician beliefs contribute to the delivery of inappropriate care.
Conceptual analysis of clinical decision-making processes and practice variations in the utilization of medical technologies.
Evaluation of the professional uncertainty hypothesis as a framework for explaining differences in physician treatment patterns.
Wide variations in the adoption and use of medical technologies directly impact healthcare costs and quality of care.
Differences in physicians' subjective beliefs regarding procedure efficacy explain substantial variation in care delivery under the professional uncertainty hypothesis.

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Discusses the professional uncertainty hypothesis and variations in medical care application.

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Albert G. Mulley (1988) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1b925b8df86b99f942e171 https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1988.03410040112039

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