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Composite health plan quality scales.
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Health Care Financing Review
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March 22, 2007
- Author:
- Caldis, Todd
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This study employs exploratory factor analysis and scale construction methods with commercial Health Plan Employers Data Information Set (HEDIS[R]) process of care and outcome measures from 1999 to uncover evidence for a unidimensional composite health maintenance organization (HMO) quality scale. Summated scales by categories of care are created and are then used in a factor analysis that has a single factor solution. The category of care scales were used to construct a summated composite scale which exhibits strong evidence of internal consistency (alpha= 0.90). External validity of the composite quality scale was checked by regressing the composite scale on Consumer Assessment of ...
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