Comparison of Physician Data in Two Data Files Available for Cancer Health Services Research.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Physicians are vital to health-care delivery, but assessing their impact on care can be challenging given limited data. Historically, health services researchers have obtained physician characteristics data from the American Medical Association (AMA) Physician Masterfile. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Medicare Data on Provider Practice and Specialty (MD-PPAS) file was assessed, as an alternative source of physician data, particularly in the context of cancer health services research.

Methods

We used physician National Provider Identifiers in the MD-PPAS data (2008-2014) to identify physicians in the AMA data current as of July 18, 2016. Within each source, we grouped physicians into six broad specialty groups. Percent agreement and Cohen's kappa

SUBMITTER: White DP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7868034 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature