Table 2.

Absolute Performance on Quality Measures, by Measure and by Type of Medical Record (N = 466 Physicians, Requiring at Least 30 Patients for at Least One Measure Per Physician)

Quality measure	Hudson Valley					National benchmark
	Performance*
	N†	Overall	Paper	EHR	p-value‡
Diabetes—eye visit	86	34.1 %	35.1 %	32.7 %	0.28	56.5 %
Diabetes—HgbA1c testing	86	86.7 %	84.2 %	90.1 %	< 0.01	89.0 %
Diabetes—LDL testing	86	86.2 %	85.1 %	87.6 %	0.26	84.8 %
Diabetes—nephropathy screening	86	66.3 %	64.8 %	68.2 %	0.33	82.4 %
Breast cancer screening	358	76.1 %	74.2 %	78.6 %	< 0.001	70.2 %
Chlamydia screening	27	59.7 %	53.0 %	65.8 %	0.02	41.7 %
Colorectal cancer screening	391	49.4 %	48.0 %	51.3 %	0.01	58.6 %
Appropriate testing for children with pharyngitis	28	65.9 %	74.2 %	52.9 %	0.05	75.6 %
Appropriate treatment for children with upper respiratory infection	55	91.5 %	93.0 %	90.0 %	0.19	83.9 %

EHR electronic health record. Hgb A1c hemoglobin A1c. LDL low-density lipoprotein

* Performance is first calculated as the proportion of a provider’s patients who received the recommended intervention and then averaged across the providers in the stated group

† Of the 466 physicians, 315 contributed data for only breast cancer and colorectal cancer screening

‡ p-values were calculated with t-tests comparing the paper and EHR groups