Payment reforms targeting specific high-cost geographical areas would be ineffective, according to a report by the National Institute for Health Care Reform. Analyzing key inferences in geographic ...

A large literature has documented widespread variation in health care spending per capita across areas of the United States without correspondingly better health outcomes. Recent work has used mover ...

Taxonomy, geographic variation, and population genetics of Bornean and Sumatran orangutans / Benoît Goossens ... [et al.] -- The functional significance of variation in jaw form in orangutans / Andrea ...

Patterns of morphological divergence across species’ ranges can provide insight into local adaptation and speciation. In this study, we compared phenotypic divergence among 4,221 crickets from 337 ...

The objective of this paper is to explore the potential factors that explain geographic variation in corporate investment, specifically the effect of historical institutions on contemporary spatial ...

Anemia significantly impacts global public health, with over 571 million women at risk of adverse health outcomes due to iron deficiency and other causes. This nationwide, population-based study in ...

Researchers found significant geographic variations in concussion diagnoses in United States emergency departments -- with the highest rates in the South and lower rates in the Midwest and Northeast.

Global regional differences seen in patient characteristics, treatment, and outcomes. (HealthDay News) — There is substantial geographic variation in patient characteristics, treatment, and outcomes ...