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Application of a Propensity Score Approach for Risk Adjustment in Profiling Multiple Physician Groups on Asthma Care

Application of a Propensity Score Approach for Risk Adjustment in Profiling Multiple Physician Groups on Asthma Care

Objectives. To develop a propensity score‐based risk adjustment method to estimate the performance of 20 physician groups and to compare performance rankings using our method to a standard hierarchical regression‐based risk adjustment method. Data Sources/Study Setting. Mailed survey of patients from 20 California physician groups between July 1998 and February …