Sections

• Front Matter
• The Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences
• Maps
• Figures
• Tables
• Introduction and Overview
• Chapter One. Variations in Medicare Spending
• Chapter Two. Variations in Acute Care Hospital Resources and the Physician Workforce
• Chapter Three. Variations, Patient Need, Practice Style and Hospital Capacity
• Chapter Four. Quality of Care: The Use of Ambulatory Care
• Chapter Five. Practice Variations and the Quality of Surgical Care for Common Conditions
• Chapter Six. The Quality of Care in the Last Six Months of Life
• Chapter Seven. The Quality of Medical Care in the United States
• Appendix on Methods
• Appendix on the Geography of Health Care in the United States
• Endnote