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SUBMITTER: Senturk D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7731965 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Communications in statistics: Simulation and computation 20181117 8
Profiling analysis aims to evaluate health care providers by modeling each provider's performance with respect to a patient outcome, such as unplanned hospital readmission. High-dimensional regression models are used in profiling to risk-adjust for patient case-mix covariates. Case-mix covariates typically ascertained from administrative databases are inherently error-prone. We examine the impact of case-mix measurement error (ME) on profiling models. The results show that even though the models ...[more]