Measuring Quality for Public Reporting of Health Provider Quality

Making It Meaningful to Patients

Bibliographic Data

ID11038871
AuthorsDana B Mukamel (0000-0003-4147-5785, At the time of this study, Dana B. Mukamel was with the Health Policy Research Institute, University of California, Irvine; Laurent G. Glance was with the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY; Andrew W. Dick was with the RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA; and Turner M. Osler was with the Department of Surgery, University of Vermont, Burlington.), Laurent G Glance (0000-0003-3381-699X, At the time of this study, Dana B. Mukamel was with the Health Policy Research Institute, University of California, Irvine; Laurent G. Glance was with the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY; Andrew W. Dick was with the RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA; and Turner M. Osler was with the Department of Surgery, University of Vermont, Burlington.), Andrew W Dick (At the time of this study, Dana B. Mukamel was with the Health Policy Research Institute, University of California, Irvine; Laurent G. Glance was with the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY; Andrew W. Dick was with the RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA; and Turner M. Osler was with the Department of Surgery, University of Vermont, Burlington.), Turner M Osler (At the time of this study, Dana B. Mukamel was with the Health Policy Research Institute, University of California, Irvine; Laurent G. Glance was with the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY; Andrew W. Dick was with the RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA; and Turner M. Osler was with the Department of Surgery, University of Vermont, Burlington.), Turner Osler (University of Rochester)
Year2010
Volume100
Issue2
Pages264-269
Publication date2010-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2008.153759
PMID20019317
PMCIDPMC2804637
OpenAlexW2135114530
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited26

Public quality reports of hospitals, health plans, and physicians are being used to promote efficiency and quality in the health care system. Shrinkage estimators have been proposed as superior measures of quality to be used in these reports because they offer more conservative and stable quality ranking of providers than traditional, nonshrinkage estimators. Adopting the perspective of a patient faced with choosing a local provider on the basis of publicly provided information, we examine the advantages and disadvantages of shrinkage and nonshrinkage estimators and contrast the information made available by them. We demonstrate that 2 properties of shrinkage estimators make them less useful than nonshrinkage estimators for patients making choices in their area of residence

Economics · Environmental health · Estimator · Health care · Information retrieval · Public health · Quality (philosophy) · Ranking (information retrieval) · Residence · Sociology · Statistics · Computer Science · Demography · Healthcare Policy and Management · Mathematics · Medicine · Nursing · Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare · Primary Care and Health Outcomes

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