The unreliability of individual physician "report cards" for assessing the costs and quality of care of a chronic disease.

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Published in JAMA on June 09, 1999

Authors

T P Hofer1, R A Hayward, S Greenfield, E H Wagner, S H Kaplan, W G Manning

Author Affiliations

1: Veterans Affairs Center for Practice Management and Outcomes Research, and Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48113, USA. thofer@umich.edu

Associated clinical trials:

Financial Incentives and Text Messaging to Improve African American Womens' Glycemic Control (FRIENDS-Text) | NCT02384265

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