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Article: Physician workforce data: when the best is not good enough.(Editorial)
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- Health Services Research
- Article date:
- October 1, 2004
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In this issue of HSR, the article by Rittenhouse et al. (2004) calls into question two different sources of information about physicians' decisions to leave clinical practice: data from the Physician Masterfile of the American Medical Association (AMA), and physicians' self-reported intentions to leave patient care. The authors conclude that neither source of data provided reliable information on withdrawals from clinical practice. In particular, they find that the AMA Masterfile had a sensitivity of only 9% in detecting physicians who left clinical practice during the previous three years.
One could first respond to this paper by arguing that these findings are ...
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