http://healthcare-economist.com/2006/10/11/information-on-referrals-ii/ An unbiased look at today's health care issues Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:33:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://healthcare-economist.com/2006/10/11/information-on-referrals-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-735 D. Shea Fri, 20 Oct 2006 02:48:16 +0000 http://healthcare-economist.com/2006/10/11/information-on-referrals-ii/#comment-735 Found your blog while watching the Cards and Mets and must have been driven by some invisible hand, since I see one of my own papers referenced in your 10/11 post. In my opinion, I think the results of Franks et al and Shea et al are driven as much by their data as underlying reality. Franks had a data set rich in physician measures and poor in patient measures. The MCBS used in our study is the reverse. It would be nice to get a study that had good measures of both sides. Found your blog while watching the Cards and Mets and must have been driven by some invisible hand, since I see one of my own papers referenced in your 10/11 post. In my opinion, I think the results of Franks et al and Shea et al are driven as much by their data as underlying reality. Franks had a data set rich in physician measures and poor in patient measures. The MCBS used in our study is the reverse. It would be nice to get a study that had good measures of both sides.

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