Measuring the Quality of Physician Practice by Using Clinical Vignettes: A Prospective Validation Study
University of California, Los Angeles · VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System · +1 more institution
Abstract
Worldwide efforts are under way to improve the quality of clinical practice. Most quality measurements, however, are poorly validated, expensive, and difficult to compare among sites.
To validate whether vignettes accurately measure the quality of clinical practice by using a comparison with standardized patients (the gold standard method), and to determine whether vignettes are a more or less accurate method than medical record abstraction.
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 32.25
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 63
Authors
7- JPJohn PeabodyCorresponding
University of California, Los Angeles, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, RAND Corporation
- JLJeff Luck
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, University of California, Los Angeles, RAND Corporation
- PGPeter Glassman
RAND Corporation, University of California, Los Angeles, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
- SJSharad Jain
RAND Corporation, University of California, Los Angeles, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
- JMJoyce M. Hansen
RAND Corporation, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, University of California, Los Angeles
Topics & keywords
- Medicine
- Clinical Practice
- Family medicine
- Veterans Affairs
- Quality (philosophy)
- Gold standard (test)
- Health care quality
- MEDLINE
- No poverty