TY  - BOOK
AU  - Park,Rolla Edward
AU  - Fink,Arlene
AU  - Brook,Robert H.
AU  - Chassin,Mark R.
AU  - Kahn,Katherine L.
AU  - Merrick,Nancy J.
AU  - Kosecoff,Jacqueline B.
AU  - Solomon,David H.
ED  - Rand Corporation.
ED  - Rand/UCLA Health Services Utilization Study.
ED  - Commonwealth Fund.
ED  - John A. Hartford Foundation.
ED  - Pew Memorial Trust.
ED  - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
TI  - Physician ratings of appropriate indications for six medical and surgical procedures
T2  - Publications of the Rand/UCLA Health Services Utilization Study
SN  - 0833007513 (pbk.)
AV  - RC67 .P49 1986
PY  - 1986///
CY  - Santa Monica, CA
PB  - RAND
KW  - Clinical indications
KW  - Evaluation
KW  - Surgical indications
KW  - Health Services
KW  - utilization
KW  - United States
N1  - "July 1986."; "This report presents results from one part of the RAND /UCLA Health Services Utilization Study"--Preface; Includes bibliographical references (p. 27-28); Also available on the internet via WWW in PDF format
N2  - The authors convened three panels of physicians to rate the appropriateness of a large number of indications for performing a total of six medical and surgical procedures. The panels followed a modified Delphi process. Panelists separately assigned initial ratings, then met and received reports showing their initial ratings and the distribution of the other panelists' ratings. They discussed the indications and revised the indications lists, then individually assigned final ratings. There was generally better agreement on the final ratings than on the initial ratings. Based on reasonable criteria for agreement and disagreement, and excluding one outlying procedure, the panelists agreed on ratings for 42 to 56 percent of the indications and disagreed on 11 to 29 percent
UR  - http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R3280/
ER  -