Investigating Risk Adjustment Methods for Health Care Provider Profiling When Observations are Scarce or Events Rare

• Main Authors: Timo B Brakenhoff (Author), Karel GM Moons (Author), Jolanda Kluin (Author), Rolf HH Groenwold (Author)
• Format: Knjiga
• Izdano: SAGE Publishing, 2018-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Teme: article
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Background: When profiling health care providers, adjustment for case-mix is essential. However, conventional risk adjustment methods may perform poorly, especially when provider volumes are small or events rare. Propensity score (PS) methods, commonly used in observational studies of binary treatme...