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Martin H. Floch, MD
Editor, The Gastroenterologist Norwalk, Conn

JAMA. 1997;277(12):964-965.

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To the Editor.

—In their article on benchmarking the US physician workforce,¹ Dr Goodman and associates reported on a new experimental projection technique to analyze the physician workforce. The authors analyzed a large health maintenance organization, a hospital referral region dominated by managed care in 1 city, and a hospital referral region dominated by fee for service in another city in 3 different geographic areas. The data were collected from 3 small geographic areas within this large country, and the authors state this new technique cannot be considered a true polling of the health care system of the country. The data show tremendous variation within the 3 areas reviewed. However, if tremendous variation exists in the 3 areas studied and the data represent a small nonstatistically significant population, then no clear conclusions can be drawn relative to the entire health care system.

In an accompanying Editorial, Dr Schroeder² . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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