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JSM 2002 Abstract #300620
Activity Number: 61
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Monday, August 12, 2002 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Health Policy Statistics*
Abstract - #300620
Title: Bayesian and Non-Bayesian Methods and Applications in Provider Profiling
Author(s): David Draper*+
Affiliation(s): University of California, Santa Cruz
Address: Baskin School of Engineering, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, California, 95064, USA
Keywords: causal inference ; calibration ; fixed-effects hierarchical models ; league tables ; random-effects models ; standardization
Abstract:

Provider profiling is a potentially controversial approach to indirect quality assessment in (at least) the fields of health policy and education. In this talk, in joint work with Mark Gittoes, I will describe findings in two case studies involving profiling: an attempt to link indirect and direct quality assessments (based on explicit process measurement) in the Rand DRG Quality of Care study, and a method now in use by the UK government to measure the appropriateness of student dropout rates at British universities.

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