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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Oct 18.
Published in final edited form as: N Engl J Med. 2019 Apr 18;380(16):1546–1554. doi: 10.1056/NEJMsa1807379

Figure 4. Effect of RUC Re-Reviews on Extent of Discrepancies in Procedure Time, 2005–2015.

Figure 4.

Each arrow and each dot represents a RUC re-review. The distance between the base of each arrow and the 45-degree line represents the size of the discrepancy between the RUC time measure used in the prevailing work RVU and the benchmark time (mean NSQIP) immediately before re-review. The distance between the tip of each arrow and the 45-degree line represents the size of the discrepancy between the new RUC time estimate used in the re-review and the benchmark time. The dots indicate re-reviews in which the discrepancy between the new RUC time and the benchmark time did not change. Six re-reviews conducted in 2005 through 2015 were excluded because their initial reviews were not conducted by the RUC and the time measures used in those reviews were not in our data.