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Different Worlds of Efficiency Measures
- There is an almost total separation between the published studies of health care efficiency and the use of efficiency measures by providers, payers, and purchasers
- Academic measures focus on multiple input/output models
- Vendor measures focus on specifying outputs
- Purchasers and health plans are generally using measures developed by vendors
- Little independent testing of reliability and validity has been reported on these metrics
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