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Is this "my" patient? Development and validation of a predictive model to link patients to primary care providers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evaluating the quality of care provided by individual primary care physicians (PCPs) may be limited by failing to know which patients the PCP feels personally responsible for.

Objective

To develop and validate a model for linking patients to specific PCPs.

Design

Retrospective convenience sample.

Participants

Eighteen PCPs from 10 practice sites within an academic adult primary care network.

Measurements

Each PCP reviewed the records for all outpatients seen over the preceding 3 years (16,435 patients reviewed) and designated each patient as "My Patient" or "Not My Patient." Using this reference standard, we developed an algorithm with logistic regression modeling to predict "My Patient" using development and validation subsets drawn from the same patient set. Quality of care was then assessed by "My Patient" or "Not My Patient" designation by analyzing cancer screening test rates.

Results

Overall, PCPs designated 11,226 patients (68.3%, range per provider 15% to 93%) to be "My Patient." The model accurately categorized patients in development and validation subsets (combined sensitivity 80.4%, specificity 93.7%, and positive predictive value 96.5%). To achieve positive predictive values of > 90% for individual PCPs, the model excluded 19.6% of PCP "My Patients" (range 5.5% to 75.3%). Cancer screening rates were higher among model-predicted "My Patients."

Conclusions

Nearly one-third of patients seen were considered "Not My Patient" by the PCP, although this proportion varied widely. We developed and validated a simple model to link specific patients and PCPs. Such efforts may help effectively target interventions to improve primary care quality.

SUBMITTER: Atlas SJ

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1831616 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Is this "my" patient? Development and validation of a predictive model to link patients to primary care providers.

Atlas Steven J SJ Chang Yuchiao Y Lasko Thomas A TA Chueh Henry C HC Grant Richard W RW Barry Michael J MJ

Journal of general internal medicine 20060901 9

<h4>Background</h4>Evaluating the quality of care provided by individual primary care physicians (PCPs) may be limited by failing to know which patients the PCP feels personally responsible for.<h4>Objective</h4>To develop and validate a model for linking patients to specific PCPs.<h4>Design</h4>Retrospective convenience sample.<h4>Participants</h4>Eighteen PCPs from 10 practice sites within an academic adult primary care network.<h4>Measurements</h4>Each PCP reviewed the records for all outpati ...[more]

PMID: 16918744

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Is this "my" patient? Development and validation of a predictive model to link patients to primary care providers.

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Objective

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