Goodman David C, Goodman Andrew A
The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, The Williamson Translational Research Building, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Improvement, Lebanon, 03756 NH USA.
Goodman Health Services, 65 Whitney Farms Rd, North Yarmouth, 04097 ME USA.
Isr J Health Policy Res. 2017 Feb 20;6:9. doi: 10.1186/s13584-017-0135-6. eCollection 2017.
In an article in this Journal, Mendlovic and colleagues report on regional variation in medical care across Israeli regions. This study joins a growing literature demonstrating generally high variation in the provision of health care services within developed countries. This commentary summarizes the status of medical care epidemiology and its studies of unwarranted variation in health care, and provides a conceptual framework to guide future studies. Recommendations are offered for advancing studies in Israel that could guide policy development and clinical improvement.
在本期刊的一篇文章中，门德洛维奇及其同事报告了以色列各地区医疗服务的区域差异。这项研究加入了越来越多的文献，这些文献表明发达国家在医疗服务提供方面普遍存在很大差异。本评论总结了医疗保健流行病学的现状及其对医疗保健中不必要差异的研究，并提供了一个概念框架来指导未来的研究。针对以色列推进相关研究提出了建议，这些研究可指导政策制定和临床改善。
