Doctors Who Perform Operations
- 28 October 1976
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 295 (18) , 982-989
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm197610282951804
Abstract
(Second of Two Parts)The Work Loads of Surgical SpecialistsThe surgical specialists are clearly the most important group for consideration in manpower planning. They are examined to determine what physician and practice characteristics influence their widely varying operative work loads. The distribution of surgical specialists in the four geographic areas was roughly the same as that for all physicians performing operations shown in Table 2.Characteristics of the Surgical SpecialistsThe two columns under "Distribution" of Table 8 present the numbers and percentage distributions of surgical specialists according to their principal practice and personal characteristics. The third column indicates, for each . . .Keywords
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