When It Comes to ED Admission Rates Among Medicare Patients, the Doctor Makes the Difference – Fierce Healthcare

Read article - An article about a study conducted by researchers from the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Harvard Medical School, which found that there were wide variations in hospital admission rates between physicians when patients visited the emergency department. "The variation suggests that physician decision making contributes considerably to whether a patient in the ED is admitted and might therefore be a fruitful target for interventions," the researchers wrote in the study.