title: Healthcare practices vary widely from town to town: regional Dartmouth Atlas.
abstract: Healthcare practices in neighboring towns vary as much as 33-fold, according to the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care analysis of claims and census data. Still unknown is the effect that this variation has on outcomes. The new regional version of the atlas makes it possible to compare care at the local community level and decide what to do about it.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: DeMott
mesh_terms: D001271:Atlases as Topic; D001415:Back / Q000601:surgery; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016208:Databases, Factual / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006801:Humans; D007196:Indiana; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000639:trends; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States