Using hierarchical models to attribute sources of variation in consumer assessments of health care

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1885-1900

  Zaslavsky, Alan M ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; Health care quality; Longitudinal data; Multilevel models; Surveys; Variance functions

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEDICARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; VARIANCE;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MEDICARE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33947373021     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2808     Document Type: Review

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