Menieres Disease: A CHEER Database Study of Local and Regional Patient Encounter and Procedure Patterns

Conclusion
This is the first practice-based clinical research database study to describe MD practice patterns. We demonstrate that academic otolaryngology–head and neck surgery providers perform significantly more operative procedures than do community providers for MD, and we validate these data with an independent Medicare spending database.

Source: Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery - June 30, 2016 Category: ENT & OMF Authors: Crowson, M. G., Schulz, K., Parham, K., Vambutas, A., Witsell, D., Lee, W. T., Shin, J. J., Pynnonen, M. A., Nguyen-Huynh, A., Ryan, S. E., Langman, A. Tags: Special Focus Section: CHEER Source Type: research