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Patient samples for measuring primary care physician performance: who should be included?Hector P Rodriguez
Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195 7660, USA
Med Care 45:989-96. 2007..However, as large-scale initiatives seek the least costly approach to obtaining these data, little is known about the implications of expanding samples to include any patient who has seen the physician in the relevant time period...
Relation of patients' experiences with individual physicians to malpractice riskHector P Rodriguez
School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Int J Qual Health Care 20:5-12. 2008..This study assesses whether patients' experiences with individual physicians, as measured by a validated survey, are associated with patient complaints and malpractice lawsuits...
The effect of care team composition on the quality of HIV careHector P Rodriguez
University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Med Care Res Rev 65:88-113. 2008..These findings indicate both advantages and disadvantages to having multiple clinicians. More effort should be devoted to facilitating coordination when multiple clinicians provide care...
Primary care physician visit continuity: a comparison of patient-reported and administratively derived measuresHector P Rodriguez
Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:1499-502. 2008..Studies find that primary care physician (PCP) visit continuity is positively associated with care quality. Some of the evidence base, however, relies on patient-reported continuity measures, which may be subject to response bias...
Physician effects on racial and ethnic disparities in patients' experiences of primary careHector P Rodriguez
Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:1666-72. 2008..Few studies have clarified the mechanisms that contribute to racial and ethnic disparities in primary care quality among comparably-insured patients...
Measuring patients' experiences with individual specialist physicians and their practicesHector P Rodriguez
Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
Am J Med Qual 24:35-44. 2009..In order to promote equitable performance measurement in specialty care, future research should clarify the contribution of consult-based specialist-patient relationships to performance differences...
Can teaching agenda-setting skills to physicians improve clinical interaction quality? A controlled interventionHector P Rodriguez
Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
BMC Med Educ 8:3. 2008....
Organizational and market influences on physician performance on patient experience measuresHector P Rodriguez
Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Health Serv Res 44:880-901. 2009..To examine the extent to which medical group and market factors are related to individual primary care physician (PCP) performance on patient experience measures...
Attributing sources of variation in patients' experiences of ambulatory careHector P Rodriguez
Department of Health Services, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095 1772, USA
Med Care 47:835-41. 2009..The extent to which performance variation is attributable to physicians versus other system-level units, however, remains unclear...
The effect of performance-based financial incentives on improving patient care experiences: a statewide evaluationHector P Rodriguez
Department of Health Services, School of Public Health, University of California, Box 951772, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1772, USA
J Gen Intern Med 24:1281-8. 2009..Patient experience measures are central to many pay-for-performance (P4P) programs nationally, but the effect of performance-based financial incentives on improving patient care experiences has not been assessed...
Case-mix adjustment and the comparison of community health center performance on patient experience measuresM Laura Johnson
Department of Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles, PO Box 951772, 650 Charles E Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Health Serv Res 45:670-90. 2010..To assess the effect of case-mix adjustment on community health center (CHC) performance on patient experience measures...
Examining multiple sources of differential item functioning on the Clinician & Group CAHPS® surveyHector P Rodriguez
Department of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Health Serv Res 46:1778-802. 2011..To evaluate psychometric properties of a widely used patient experience survey...
A national study of problematic care experiences among Latinos with diabetesHector P Rodriguez
Department of Health Services, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Box 951772, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1772, USA
J Health Care Poor Underserved 21:1152-68. 2010....
Paying for enhanced service: comparing patients' experiences in a concierge and general medicine practiceJustin M Ko
1 Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2 Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA 3 The Health Institute, Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 4 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Patient 2:95-103. 2009..These practices promise patients more personalized care and dedicated service, in exchange for an annual membership fee paid by patients. The experiences of patients using these practices remain largely undocumented...
The effect of item screeners on the quality of patient survey data: a randomized experiment of ambulatory care experience measuresHector P Rodriguez
1 Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA 2 Pacific Business Group on Health, San Francisco, California, USA 3 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 4 Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Patient 2:135-41. 2009..However, empirical evidence supporting this view is scant...
A randomized experiment of issue framing and voter support of tax increases for health insurance expansionHector P Rodriguez
Department of Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1772, USA
Health Policy 98:245-55. 2010..To assess the effect of issue framing on voter support of tax increases for health insurance expansion...
The reliability of medical group performance measurement in a single insurer's pay for performance programHector P Rodriguez
Department of Health Services, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1772, USA
Med Care 50:117-23. 2012..However, the extent to which reliable measurement is achievable in single insurer P4P initiatives remains unclear...
