TABLE 2.

Hypothetical Facilities With Different Levels of PM Performance and the Same Abstinence Rate and Positive Patient-Level Continuing Care PM–Abstinence Relationships

	Facility A Abstinence			Facility B Abstinence			Facility C Abstinence
	Yes	No	Total	Yes	No	Total	Yes	No	Total
	Marginal continuing care PM and abstinence distributions
Continuing care PM, %
Yes	…	…	33	…	…	52	…	…	72
No	…	…	67	…	…	48	…	…	28
Total	25	75	100	25	75	100	25	75	100
Marginal and within-facility continuing care PM and abstinence joint distributions (relationships)
Continuing care PM, No.
Yes	26	40	66	36	68	104	44	100	144
No	24	110	134	14	82	96	6	50	56
Total	50	150	200	50	150	200	50	150	200

Note. PM = performance measure. The ellipses indicate patient-level data within programs that are either not available (if researchers only have facility-level data) or are not analyzed in facility-level–only analyses.