Test-specific funnel plots for healthcare provider profiling leveraging individual- and summary-level information.

ABSTRACT: In addition to applications in meta-analysis, funnel plots have emerged as an effective graphical tool for visualizing the detection of health care providers with unusual performance. Although there already exist a variety of approaches to producing funnel plots in the literature of provider profiling, limited attention has been paid to elucidating the critical relationship between funnel plots and hypothesis testing. Within the framework of generalized linear models, here we establish methodological guidelines for creating funnel plots specific to the statistical tests of interest. Moreover, we show that the test-specific funnel plots can be created merely leveraging summary statistics instead of individual-level information. This appealing feature inhibits the leak of protected health in

SUBMITTER: Wu W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10449097 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature