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Health Administration Research Day April 25, 2001

Research Day is an opportunity to interact with students and colleagues.  In addition to posters by our students and our guest speaker, we will also be awarding our prizes, including the new Naylor award for best dissertation.

The guest speaker will be Sharon-Lise Normand from the Harvard Medical School.   Details of her talk are noted below.  Two of our faculty, Jack Tu, Canada Research Chair in Health Services Research at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, and Scott Dudgeon, Executive Director of the Metropolitan Toronto District Health Council will be the discussants.

A detailed program and information is available at http://www.utoronto.ca/hlthadmn/research_day_2001.htm

Statistical Considerations for Profiling Providers of Medical Care

Comparing (or profiling) medical providers on the basis of outcomes, costs, or processes of care involves analyzing observational data in order to make comparative statements about the quality of care.  Profiling thus involves several challenging analytic steps: determination of the appropriate outcome, standardization or risk-adjustment of patient outcomes, and ultimately selection of "outliers".   In this talk, we review various approaches to profiling, with particular emphasis on the statistical issues associated with each step.  Examples involving patients with cardiovascular disease will be used to demonstrate issues and results.

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