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Quality of Care in Patients with Diabetes
- Sheldon Greenfield, MD;
- Sherrie H. Kaplan, PhD, MPH; and
- Richard Kahn, PhD
- Tufts University School of Medicine; Boston, MA 02111 (Greenfield, Kaplan) American Diabetes Association; Alexandria, VA 22311 (Kahn)
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Mahadevia and associates underscore the importance of understanding the central point of our paper, that is, that variation between physicians (physician-level clustering) can limit the power of studies comparing any groups of physicians (for example, fee-for-service vs. managed care settings or high-quality vs. low-quality practice settings). …
