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ArticleIEEE transactions on human-machine systems2015

Effect of pooled comparative information on judgments of quality.

Leigh A Baumgart, Ellen J Bass, John D Voss, Jason A Lyman

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Article in IEEE transactions on human-machine systems, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Leigh A BaumgartCenter for Biomedical Research Informatics, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL USA.
Ellen J BassCollege of Computing & Informatics and College of Nursing & Health Professions, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
John D VossDepartment of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
Jason A LymanDepartment of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.

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Systems Engineering Focus on Clinical InformaticsT15LM009462 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI BASS, ELLEN J · 2007 to 2012
$3.6M
NLM NIH HHS T15 LM009462
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Abstract

Quality assessment is the focus of many health care initiatives. Yet it is not well understood how the type of information used in decision support tools to enable judgments of quality based on data impacts the accuracy, consistency and reliability of judgments made by physicians. Comparative pooled information could allow physicians to judge the quality of their practice by making comparisons to other practices or other specific populations of patients. In this study, resident physicians were provided with varying types of information derived from pooled patient data sets: quality component measures at the individual and group level, a qualitative interpretation of the quality measures using percentile rank, and an aggregate composite quality score. 32 participants viewed thirty quality profiles consisting of information applicable to the practice of thirty de-identified resident physicians. Those provided with quality component measures and a qualitative interpretation of the quality measures (rankings) judged quality of care more similarly to experts and were more internally consistent compared to participants who were provided with quality component measures alone. Reliability between participants was significantly less for those who were provided with a composite quality score compared to those who were not.

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decision supportjudgment analysisQuality assessmentquality improvement

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PMID26949581
PMCPMC4776339

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