Is risk-adjustor selection more important than statistical approach for provider profiling? Asthma as an example

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 20-34

  Huang, I Chan ^a   Dominici, Francesca ^a   Frangakis, Constantine ^a   Diette, Gregory B ^a,b   Damberg, Cheryl L ^c   Wu, Albert W ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Pacific Business Group on Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Fixed effects model; Physician group; Random effects model; Report cards; Risk adjustment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERFORMANCE; PHYSICIAN; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; ASTHMA; CALIFORNIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GROUP PRACTICE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RISK ADJUSTMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 12344260569     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X04273138     Document Type: Article

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