Investigating Risk Adjustment Methods for Health Care Provider Profiling When Observations are Scarce or Events Rare
Background: When profiling health care providers, adjustment for case-mix is essential. However, conventional risk adjustment methods may perform poorly, especially when provider volumes are small or events rare. Propensity score (PS) methods, commonly used in observational studies of binary treatme...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2018-07-01
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| Series: | Health Services Insights |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1178632918785133 |