Is this "my" patient? Development and validation of a predictive model to link patients to primary care providers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evaluating the quality of care provided by individual primary care physicians (PCPs) may be limited by failing to know which patients the PCP feels personally responsible for.

Objective

To develop and validate a model for linking patients to specific PCPs.

Design

Retrospective convenience sample.

Participants

Eighteen PCPs from 10 practice sites within an academic adult primary care network.

Measurements

Each PCP reviewed the records for all outpatients seen over the preceding 3 years (16,435 patients reviewed) and designated each patient as "My Patient" or "Not My Patient." Using this reference standard, we developed an algorithm with logistic regression modeling to predict "My Patient" using development and validation subsets drawn from the

SUBMITTER: Atlas SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1831616 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature