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...Erwin A. Blackstone This article concludes that substantial excess neurosurgical capacity exists. Neurosurgery like other specialties has permitted almost free entry and as a result of such factors as high earnings and status, excess capacity has developed and because of insufficient competition...

... to increase the price sensitivity of consumers) for improving the performance of the neurosurgery market. In this context, our judgement of the usefulness of market concepts presumably correlates with our optimism or pessimism about the success of such policies. Once again it is pertinent...

... was drawn from unpublished Ameri- can Medical Association (AMA) Masterfile data for active New York State physicians in 1984 (52,764 physicians in total). It was stratified (1) by specialty group (specialties with a high risk of malpractice suit in- cluded obstetrics, neurosurgery...

... confidential settlements. In addition, 14 local physicians signed a letter to the chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery of the medical school expressing concerns about the rates of seemingly unnecessary surgery. A bitter test of wills in the department followed, which was resolved through a negotiated...

... of neurosurgery, see E. A. Blackstone, “Market Power and Resource Misallocation in Medicine: The Case of Neurosurgery,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 3 (Fall, 1978): 345-360. 19. According to a GAO description: “The American Board of Medical Specialties is a coordinating board...

...-28. A program of traumatic medicine concerning neurology and neurosurgery for attorneys will be presented. Contact: Walter N. Beckham, Jr., University of Miami Law Center, P. 0. Box 248087, Coral Gables, FL 33124. The Third World Conference on Medical Informatics will be held Sep- tember...

... and ophthalmology) 4.2 Obstetrics-Gynecology 22.8 Pediatrics-(including all pediatric specialties except child or adolescent psychiatry) 9.4 Psychia try 4.2 Surgery-(induding general surgery, neurosurgery, plastic...

... reported that they had claims for benefits denied. The following reports are typical: It [surgery] has to be precertified. . . . I had to go to Indianapolis for neurosurgery twice, and the second time that I went, they said that I had not precertified which was not the truth. . . . We had...

... physicians are those who provide the full spectrum of pri- mary and preventive care services to their patients. Fifty years ago, two- thirds of the physician workforce were generalists. The others were spe- cialists, specializing in a particular branch of medicine (cardiology, ophthalmology, neurosurgery...

... Sources of Cadaveric Kidneys for Transplantation in a General Hospital,” Actu Med Scandinavia 192 (1972): 251-253; H. H. Kaufman et al., “Kidney Donation: Needs and Possibilities,” Neurosurgery 5 (1979):237-244; K. J. Bart et al., “Cadaveric Kidneys for Trans- plantation: A Paradox...

... of knowledge is absent in the case of lower back pain; not only is the efficacy of the available technol- ogies-ranging from exercise to massage to neurosurgery-more open to question, but the outcomes are also more ambiguous. In the case of health care organizations, the results of even highly...

... Ganey Survey as Quality Measure for Patient Hospital Experience .” Neurosurgery 71 , no. 2 : N21 – N24 . ...

... sophisticated care including open heart surgery, neurosurgery, and cancer treatment (ibid., 249). For example, SRMH has 225 beds, and SRCH has 145 beds. Including just these two hospitals (and, in fact, Kaiser and others would probably also be included so that these numbers probably overstate UAH’s...

... are constructed for internal medicine, surgery, and obstetrics. Indices on renal dialysis, cancer treatment, neurosurgery and other costly hospital technology, are being developed. As in the Federal Republic, French hospital planning does not include planning for hospital manpower. The expansion...

... Scientific and Research Institute for Neurosurgery. Chernichovsky and Potapchik s Changing Roles 127 The changes stipulated by the New Economic Mechanism and what followed through 1992 were barely implemented, principally because local authorities lacked the required capacity to manage...

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