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. 2019 Jun 10;34(11):2355–2367. doi: 10.1007/s11606-019-05025-3

Table 3.

Characteristics of High-Variation Documentation Categories

Documentation category Completion (median across physicians) Interquartile Range
(25%‘ile–75%‘ile)
Percent of explained variation at each level Remaining variation at the physician level
State Provider organization Practice
Review or discuss documents 18.7% 50.8% 7.1%* 5% 9.9% 78.1%***
(10.3–61.2%) [0.03] [0.04] [0.06] [0.04]
Assessment and diagnosis 13.4% 60.4% 0% 8.3% 15.8%* 76%***
(2.6–62.9%) [0.01] [0.04] [0.06] [0.05]
Problem list 33.7% 73.1% 1.3% 9.7%* 19%** 70.1%***
(3.5–76.6%) [0.01] [0.04] [0.06] [0.04]
Conduct review of systems 73.5% 62.3% 3.2% 15.6%** 13.5%* 67.7%***
(32.9–95.2%) [0.03] [0.05] [0.05] [0.04]
Social history 76.1% 53.3% 4% 17.8%*** 16%** 62.2%***
(39.5–92.8%) [0.02] [0.04] [0.05] [0.03]

Note: Bootstrapped standard errors appear in brackets

*p significant at the 0.05 false discovery rate; **p significant at the 0.01 false discovery rate; ***p significant at the 0.001 false discovery rate