Table 2.

Percent Patients with Recommended Care per Physician

	#Physicians	Eligible Patients*	Mean % Patients with Recommended Care, per Weighted Physician (95% CI)†
Childhood immunization
Eligible‡	796	10,100
Cohort§	544 (68%)	9,532 (94%)	65 (33–97)
Influenza vaccination
Eligible	963	136,398
Cohort	843 (88%)	135,954 (99%)	57 (33–81)
Cervical screening
Eligible	997	270,441
Cohort	933 (94%)	270,213 (99%)	69 (45–92)
Antidepressant follow-up
Eligible	864	11,363
Cohort	618 (72%)	10,774 (95%)	48 (18–78)
Asthma care
Eligible	930	29,119
Cohort	728 (78%)	28,255 (97%)	61 (38–83)
Diabetes: eye exam
Eligible	923	33,326
Cohort	703 (76%)	32,400 (97%)	38 (16–59)
Post-Ml: β-blocker
Eligible	783	5,568
Cohort	431 (55%)	4,763 (86%)	60 (27–92)
Benzodiazepine prescribing
Eligible	933	74,161
Cohort	762 (82%)	73,456 (99%)	16 (3–28)

^*These patients met the indicator's eligibility criteria (denominator).

^†The mean proportion of patients per physician (not a population mean) is weighted by the number of eligible patients per physician. This places greater emphasis on practices with larger numbers of eligible patients and increase the validity of the confidence intervals.

^‡These physicians had at least one eligible patient.

^§These physicians had the required number of eligible patients and were scored on the indicator.