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Published in final edited form as: Surgery. 2015 Aug 19;159(2):375–380. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2015.06.043

Table 2.

Reliability of risk-adjusted total episode payments across hospital caseloads.

		Quartile of Hospital Caseload

	Overall	Lowest Quartile (<25%)	Middle Quartiles (25–75%)	Highest Quartile (>75%)
Colectomy

Caseload (mean, SD)	157.0 (115.6)	21.6 (7.7)	60.0 (14.6)	168.3 (81.1)
Reliability (mean, SD)	0.80 (0.18)	0.58 (0.13)	0.86 (0.04)	0.96 (0.01)

Incisional Hernia Repair

Caseload (mean, SD)	83.8 (67.2)	10.3 (3.7)	28.0 (7.0)	85.3 (46.0)
Reliability (mean, SD)	0.61 (0.25)	0.32 (0.12)	0.64 (0.09)	0.88 (0.05)

Pancreatectomy

Caseload (mean, SD)	13.5 (21.9)	2.4 (0.49)	6.0 (1.7)	32.4 (30.1)
Reliability (mean, SD)	0.45 (0.27)	0.22 (0.15)	0.37 (0.12)	0.77 (0.14)

(SD: standard deviation)