Health plan quality-of-care information is undermined by voluntary reporting

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 62-70

  Thompson, Joseph W ^a,e   Pinidiya, Sathiska D ^b   Ryan, Kevin W ^b,c   McKinley, Elizabeth D ^c   Alston, Shannon ^d   Bost, James E ^d   Briefer French, Jessica ^d   Simpson, Pippa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE   (United States)

^e Arkansas Center for Health Improvement   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PERFORMANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SELF REPORT;

ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MANAGED CARE PROGRAMS; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 0037244531     PISSN: 07493797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0749-3797(02)00569-X     Document Type: Article

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