Creating Unidimensional Global Measures of Physician Practice Quality Based on Health Insurance Claims Data.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore the extent to which commonly used claims-based process quality indicators can be used to create an internally valid global composite measure of physician practice quality.

Data sources

Health insurance claims data (October 2007-May 2010) from 134 physician practices in Seattle, WA.

Study design

We use confirmatory and exploratory factor analysis to develop theory- and empirically driven internally valid composite measures based on 19 quality indicators.

Data collection methods

Health insurance claims data from nine insurance companies and self-funded employers were collected and aggregated by third-party organization.

Principal findings

Our results did not support a single global measure using the entire set of quality indicators. We

SUBMITTER: Martsolf GR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5441486 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature