ArticleStatistics in medicine2024
Comparing methods for assessing the reliability of health care quality measures.
Article in Statistics in medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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- Longitudinal Reliability of Rheumatology Patient Safety Measures and Implications for CMS Case Minimums.Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety · 2026Article
- Development and validation of a pragmatic measure of context at the organizational level: The Inventory of Factors Affecting Successful Implementation and Sustainment (IFASIS).Implementation science communications · 2025Article
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Abstract
Quality measurement plays an increasing role in U.S. health care. Measures inform quality improvement efforts, public reporting of variations in quality of care across providers and hospitals, and high-stakes financial decisions. To be meaningful in these contexts, measures should be reliable and not heavily impacted by chance variations in sampling or measurement. Several different methods are used in practice by measure developers and endorsers to evaluate reliability; however, there is uncertainty and debate over differences between these methods and their interpretations. We review methods currently used in practice, pointing out differences that can lead to disparate reliability estimates. We compare estimates from 14 different methods in the case of two sets of mental health quality measures within a large health system. We find that estimates can differ substantially and that these discrepancies widen when sample size is reduced.
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