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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jul 14.
Published in final edited form as: Health Serv Outcomes Res Methodol. 2003;4(3):135–149. doi: 10.1023/B:HSOR.0000031400.77979.b6

Table 1.

Percentages of providers in small MLE SMR category (the bottom 25%), moderate MLE SMR category (the middle 50%), and large MLE SMR category (the upper 25%) for each provider stratum with strata defined by total follow-up patient-years.

Provider size Upper 25% Middle 50% Upper 25% No. of providers
>10 60 10 30 429
10-20 30 32 38 367
20-30 25 43 31 417
30-40 19 54 28 340
40-50 28 57 19 350
50-60 19 62 19 290
60-70 17 60 23 254
70-80 17 59 24 204
80-90 15 66 20 151
90-100 15 68 17 139
100-130 11 74 15 235
130-170 12 66 21 161
170-250 12 74 14 73
≥250 0 87 13 15