Profiling Care Provided by Different Groups of Physicians: Effects of Patient Case-Mix (Bias) and Physician-Level Clustering on Quality Assessment Results

作者: John L. Griffith , Sheldon Greenfield , Sherrie H. Kaplan , Richard Kahn , John Ninomiya

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-136-2-200201150-00008

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摘要: The findings of this study underscore the importance designing physician profiling studies with sufficient power to account for physician-level variation (clustering) as well patient case-mix...

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