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

[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.

[学科分类] 药学

[关键词] quality measurement;quality improvement methodologies;statistics;performance measures