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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Acad Radiol. 2010 Jun;17(6):752–760. doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2010.02.010

Item response probabilities within each latent class and latent class prevalences for 233 radiologists who were surveyed about their perceptions and use of MQSA mandated medical outcomes audits.

Item Response Probabilities

Latent Class: Favorable Less favorable Neutral Unfavorable
Response Category* Agree Neutral Disagree Agree Neutral Disagree Agree Neutral Disagree Agree Neutral Disagree
Trust accuracy of audits 0.87 0.10 0.03 0.88 0.10 0.03 0.41 0.43 0.17 0.00 0.00 1.00
Pay attention to audits 0.95 0.05 0.00 0.70 0.30 0.00 0.00 0.71 0.29 0.51 0.00 0.49
Reports are valuable 0.99 0.01 0.00 0.69 0.31 0.00 0.00 0.83 0.17 0.76 0.00 0.24
Review cancers because of audits 0.91 0.07 0.02 0.40 0.34 0.26 0.73 0.12 0.16 0.16 0.12 0.72
Audits prompt to improve performance 0.94 0.06 0.00 0.00 0.77 0.23 0.16 0.63 0.21 0.76 0.00 0.24
If congress mandates additional requirements I may stop interpreting mammograms 0.25 0.29 0.46 0.51 0.10 0.39 0.17 0.38 0.45 0.37 0.36 0.27

Class Prevalences 0.75 0.13 0.08 0.03
*

See methods section for complete survey questions.