caa a22 4500 606167447 CHVBK 20210128100702.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10754-015-9167-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10754-015-9167-z Public reporting and the evolution of diabetes quality [Elektronische Daten] [Jeffrey McCullough, Daniel Crespin, Jean Abraham, Jon Christianson, Michael Finch] We address three questions related to public reports of diabetes quality. First, does clinic quality evolve over time? Second, does the quality of reporting clinics converge to a common standard? Third, how persistent are provider quality rankings across time? Since current methods of public reporting rely on historic data, measures of clinic quality are most informative if relative clinic performance is persistent across time. We use data from the Minnesota Community Measurement spanning 2007-2012. We employ seemingly-unrelated regression to measure quality improvement conditional upon cohort effects and changes in quality metrics. Basic autoregressive models are used to measure quality persistence. There were striking differences in initial quality across cohorts of clinics and early-reporting cohorts maintained higher quality in all years. This suggests that consumers can infer, on average, that non-reporting clinics have poorer quality than reporting clinics. Average quality, however, improves slowly in all cohorts and quality dispersion declines over time both within and across cohorts. Relative clinic quality is highly persistent year-to-year, suggesting that publicly-reported measures can inform consumers in choice of clinics, even though they represent measured quality for a previous time period. Finally, definition changes in measures can make it difficult to draw appropriate inferences from longitudinal public reports data. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2015 Public reporting nationallicence Quality measurement nationallicence Diabetes nationallicence Longitudinal analysis nationallicence McCullough Jeffrey Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware Street SE, MMC 729, 55455, Minneapolis, MN, USA aut Crespin Daniel Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware Street SE, MMC 729, 55455, Minneapolis, MN, USA aut Abraham Jean Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware Street SE, MMC 729, 55455, Minneapolis, MN, USA aut Christianson Jon Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware Street SE, MMC 729, 55455, Minneapolis, MN, USA aut Finch Michael Finch & King, 5917 Girard Avenue South, 55419, Minneapolis, MN, USA aut International Journal of Health Economics and Management Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 15/1(2015-03-01), 127-138 2199-9023 15:1<127 2015 15 10754 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10754-015-9167-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10754-015-9167-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- McCullough Jeffrey Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware Street SE, MMC 729, 55455, Minneapolis, MN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Crespin Daniel Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware Street SE, MMC 729, 55455, Minneapolis, MN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Abraham Jean Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware Street SE, MMC 729, 55455, Minneapolis, MN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Christianson Jon Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware Street SE, MMC 729, 55455, Minneapolis, MN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Finch Michael Finch & King, 5917 Girard Avenue South, 55419, Minneapolis, MN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Health Economics and Management Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 15/1(2015-03-01), 127-138 2199-9023 15:1<127 2015 15 10754