title: Using data describing physician inpatient practice patterns: issues and opportunities.
abstract: Information on physicians' inpatient practice patterns is becoming increasingly available through state data systems. This article describes the kind of information that is becoming publicly available, provides illustrations of how these data can be used, and discusses issues and potential problems that may occur in using the data.
authors.affiliation: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey.
authors.forename: R G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Hughes
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D006302:Health Services Research; D008499:Medical Records; D010351:Patient Discharge; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States