Healthcare provider profiling: fixing observation period or fixing sample size?

BMJ Open Quality

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Werner Vach¹  Sonja Wehberg³  Bernhard Güntert⁴  Marcel Jakob⁵  George Luta⁷ 

[1] Basel Academy for Quality and Research in Medicine;Department of Environmental Sciences , University of Basel;Research Unit of General Practice , University of Southern Denmark;Private University in the Principality of Liechtenstein;Medical Faculty , University of Basel;Crossklinik;Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Biomathematics , Georgetown University;The Parker Institute , Copenhagen University Hospital

关键词: quality measurement;    quality improvement methodologies;    statistics;    performance measures;   

DOI  :  10.1136/bmjoq-2021-001588

学科分类：药学

来源: BMJ Publishing Group

【 摘 要 】

Reporting information on the quality ofhealthcare providers is a popular strategyattempting to improve the overall healthcarequality at the national level.1 2 The basic ideais to force providers to compare against eachother and to stimulate poorly performingproviders to improve their quality. In addition, patients may get the opportunity toselect a well-performing provider whenlooking for a specific treatment.

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