Setting a fair performance standard for physicians' quality of patient care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Assessing physicians' clinical performance using statistically sound, evidence-based measures is challenging. Little research has focused on methodological approaches to setting performance standards to which physicians are being held accountable.

Objective

Determine if a rigorous approach for setting an objective, credible standard of minimally-acceptable performance could be used for practicing physicians caring for diabetic patients.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Participants

Nine hundred and fifty-seven physicians from the United States with time-limited certification in internal medicine or a subspecialty.

Main measures

The ABIM Diabetes Practice Improvement Module was used to collect data on ten clinical and two patient experience m

SUBMITTER: Hess BJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3077491 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature