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Title Variations of physician group profiling indicators for asthma care Brief title Variations of physician group profiling Authors
Background Patient outcomes and consistency of care with guidelines are used as indicators to profile provider performance in asthma care. However, little is know about how much of the variation in profiling measures can be attributed to provider effects, or how reliable are the resulting profiles. Objectives To determine how much of the variation in provider profiles can be attributed to provi...
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OBJECTIVE To determine how much of the variation in physician group profiling for asthma care can be attributed to physician groups and how reliable those profiling indicators are. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study. Variations attributable to physician groups are presented using the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). The reliability of profiling results was determined using the ICC an...
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عنوان ژورنال: Aesthetic Surgery Journal
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1090-820X
DOI: 10.1067/maj.2001.115055