Variabilidad de la práctica médica: a casi 70 años del efecto Glover / Variability of the medical practice: almost 70 years of the Glover's effect

Knowledge about the financing efficiency and organization of health services requires continual updating.Clinical epidemiology is the science of making predictions that can guide the management of individual patients by the careful study of groups. It is clear at the present that the application of the logical epidemiology to the health administration should permit the identification of which diseases have importance to determinate populations to identify people in risk situation. These situations are considered in detail in the article