Availability of Data for Measuring Physician Quality Performance
Typical health plan data provide limited information for benchmarking physician performance using even a less stringent rule for attributing patient measures to physicians.
Benchmarking Physician Performance: Reliability of Individual and Composite Measures
At least 50 quality events per physician are needed to reach a minimum level of reliability for most quality measures calculated from administrative data.
The Relationship Between Quality and Utilization in Managed Care
Correspondence Regarding, "Validation of Data Collection for the HEDIS Performance Measure on Chlamydia Screening in a MCO"
