Bias through selective inclusion and attrition: Representativeness when comparing provider performance with routine outcome monitoring data

Addressing Missing Data in Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs): Implications for Comparing Provider Performance

Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are now routinely collected in the English National Health Service (NHS) and used to compare and reward hospital performance within a high-powered pay-for-performance scheme. However, PROMs are prone to missing data. For example, hospitals often fail to administer the pre-operative questionnaire at hospital admission, or patients may refuse to participa...

Attrition Bias

Reference values for generic instruments used in routine outcome monitoring: the leiden routine outcome monitoring study

INTRODUCTION The Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI), Mood & Anxiety Symptom Questionnaire -30 (MASQ-D30), Short Form Health Survey 36 (SF-36), and Dimensional Assessment of Personality Pathology-Short Form (DAPP-SF) are generic instruments that can be used in Routine Outcome Monitoring (ROM) of patients with common mental disorders. We aimed to generate reference values usually encountered in 'healt...

When Performance Trumps Gender Bias:

We examine a new intervention to overcome gender biases in hiring, promotion, and job assignments: an “evaluation nudge,” in which people are evaluated jointly rather than separately regarding their future performance. Evaluators are more likely to focus on individual performance in joint than in separate evaluation and on group stereotypes in separate than in joint evaluation, making joint eva...

Provider monitoring and pay-for-performance when multiple providers affect outcomes: An application to renal dialysis.

OBJECTIVE To characterize the influence of dialysis facilities and nephrologists on resource use and patient outcomes in the dialysis population and to illustrate how such information can be used to inform payment system design. DATA SOURCES Medicare claims for all hemodialysis patients for whom Medicare was the primary payer in 2004, combined with the Medicare Enrollment Database and the CMS...