Unbiased Analysis of Today's Healthcare Issues
That is the question asked by a recent NBER working paper by Chandra et al. (2023). This question is important for a variety of reasons. First, quality measure data collection is expensive. Saraswathula et al. 2023 found that Johns Hopkins Hospital had to report 162 unique quality metrics, and the cost for collecting these data…
How do you measure whether a quality measure is reliable? What does the term “reliable” even mean? In the world of quality measurement, reliability is the ability to confidently tell the difference between a high-performing individual (or physician or hospital) and a low-performing individual. One can think of reliability as a signal-to-noise measure; if the…