Estrategias para reducir la variación en el uso de la cirugía

Peter McCulloch1, Myura Nagendran, W Bruce Campbell

  • 1Nuffield Department of Surgical Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. peter.mcculloch@nds.ox.ac.uk

Lancet (London, England)
|October 1, 2013
PubMed
Resumen

Las tasas de provisión de cirugía varían significativamente, lo que indica la necesidad de reducción. La investigación sobre la modificación de estas tasas es limitada, con intervenciones individuales (micro) y sistémicas (macro) que muestran efectos complejos. Es esencial un estudio más profundo.

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