Performance on Patient Experience Measures of Former Chief Medical Residents as Physician Exemplars Chosen by the Profession.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Physicians' knowledge about each other's quality is central to clinical decision-making, but such information is not well understood and is rarely harnessed to identify exemplars for disseminating best practices or quality improvement. One exception is chief medical resident selection, which is typically based on interpersonal, teaching, and clinical skills.

Objective

To compare care for patients of primary care physicians (PCPs) who were former chiefs with care for patients of nonchief PCPs.

Design, setting, and participants

Using 2010 to 2018 Medicare Fee-For-Service Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) survey data (response rate, 47.6%), Medicare claims for random 20% samples of fee-for-service beneficiaries, and medical board

SUBMITTER: Chen L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9972239 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature