Most Primary Care Physician Practices Appear Too Small To Adequately Measure Quality

Most primary care physicians active in the Medicare program work in practices with too few patients to reliably measure significant differences in common measures of quality and cost performance, according to a study in the December 9 issue of JAMA. There has been ample evidence that despite high and rising costs of health care in the U.S., quality is lagging, according to background information in the article…

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