Balancing quality and utilization: Emergency physician level correlation between 72  h returns, admission, and CT utilization rates

Metrics, particularly those assessing physician productivity, resource utilization, or quality, are increasingly used to measure emergency physician performance for a range of purposes including quality improvement (QI) and even annual compensation. While prior work has shown complicated relationships between these measures at the facility level [1], little work has examined whether these common measures compete or balance each other at the physician level, which may substantially influence the incentives faced by physicians, and thus, the care decisions made in the ED.
Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Source Type: research