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