Is There a Doctors' Effect on Patients' Physical Health, Beyond the Intervention and All Known Factors? A Systematic Review.
Christoph SchnelleJustin Michael ClarkRachel MascordMark A JonesPublished in: Therapeutics and clinical risk management (2022)
Doctors, on their own, can affect patients' physical health for many interventions and outcomes. Effects range from negligible to substantial, even after accounting for all known variables. Many published cohorts may reveal valuable information by reanalyzing their data for doctors' effects. Positive and negative doctor outliers appear regularly. Therefore, it can matter which doctor is chosen.
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