Variations in quality: international perspectives
by Emily DeVoto
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Vince Kuraitis wrote @ April 7th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
The Commonwealth Fund has done some very illuminating work comparing the U.S. health care system to that of other countries http://www.cmwf.org/topics/topics.htm?attrib_id=12009
Generally, we stack up poorly. We spend more per capita (by far) than any other nation and we are generally very midling in most measures of health outcomes.
The articles you point to focus on practice variation in low income countries; my recollection comparing practice variation in the U.S. against other countries is that we again are fairly average…perhaps your memory is better than mine.
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