Article Excerpt: Findings from a new study conducted jointly at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School, and published in Health Services Research, highlight the statistical drawbacks of one form of analysis commonly used in health services research while demonstrating the benefits of another. “An ongoing goal of health services research has been to understand the reasons for variation in healthcare delivery, whether it’s between physicians, hospitals, or geographic areas—and how that variation may contribute to disparities in healthcare across different types of patients (defined by characteristics such as their sex, race, or socio-economic status),” says James O’Malley, MS, PhD, a professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and of biomedical data science at the Geisel School of Medicine, who served as lead author on the study.
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Article Source: Geisel School of Medicine News