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The Role of Training Environment Care Intensity in US Physician Cost Consciousness
Kira L. Ryskina, Scott D. Halpern, Nancy S. Minyanou, Susan D. Goold, Jon C. Tilburt
In Mayo Clinical Proceedings, Kira Ryskina and colleagues, including Scott Halpern, evaluate the impact of training environment on physicians’ levels of cost-consciousness. The authors analyzed results from the Physicians, Health Care Costs, and Society survey, administered to physicians across the country in 2012. Using responses from physicians for whom information was available about the care intensity of the hospitals where they did their residency, the authors evaluated the degree to which training environment influenced the views expressed in the survey. Training intensity was...
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