Failure of Low-cost Audits With Feedback to Reduce Laboratory Test Utilization
Medical CarePublished 1 January 1987
Robert G. Wones
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The medical literature contains more than 20 studies of education as a cost-control measure but the unknown mechanism by which these programs achieve their savings is not adequately addressed.
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From the Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
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