Statistical Approaches for Quantifying the Quality of Neurosurgical Care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Quantifying quality of health care can provide valuable information to patients, providers, and policy makers. However, the observational nature of measuring quality complicates assessments.

Methods

We describe a conceptual model for defining quality and its implications about the data collected, how to make inferences about quality, and the assumptions required to provide statistically valid estimates. Twenty-one binary or polytomous quality measures collected from 101,051 adult Medicaid beneficiaries aged 18-64 years with schizophrenia from 5 U.S. states show methodology. A categorical principal components analysis establishes dimensionality of quality, and item response theory models characterize the relationship between each quality measure and a unidimensiona

SUBMITTER: Normand ST 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9074098 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature