Cave D G
Hewitt Associates, Newport Beach, CA, USA.
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Payers and providers of medical services need to understand what is effective in medical care and what determines patient outcomes. The diagnostic cluster methodology offers a way to analyze physicians' overall practice patterns in treating a specific medical condition and provides a good foundation for performing medical outcomes studies.
医疗服务的支付方和提供者需要了解医疗护理中什么是有效的,以及什么决定了患者的治疗结果。诊断聚类方法提供了一种分析医生治疗特定疾病的总体实践模式的方法,并为开展医疗结果研究奠定了良好基础。