Proving the link between outcomes and resource utilization.
Medical practice profiling is a popular way of helping to reduce variation in resource utilization among providers in managed care organizations. Usually, these programs take into account severity of illness, patient demographics, and so forth, but rarely are clinical practice patterns linked with outcome. The authors offer information about an information system-based program that attempts to do just that.
Goldfarb
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Graduate Health System, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA.
Brailer
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Katz
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D019091:Critical Pathways; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003710:Demography; D006302:Health Services Research; D007256:Information Systems; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States; D014600:Utilization Review