Table 1.
Estimate (95 Percent Confidence Interval) | |||||||||
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Practice Size | Organizational Structure | ||||||||
Measure of Practices’ Achievement |
All practices n = 138,795 |
Solo/Partner n = 108,963 |
Small Group n = 21,638 |
Medium Group n = 6,497 |
Large Group n = 1,697 |
p-Value† | Single-Specialty n = 21,016 |
Multi-Specialty n = 8,816 |
p-Value†† |
Mean infrastructure score* | 33.1 (31.4–34.8) | 31.0 (29.0–32.9) | 38.4 (35.8–41.0) | 45.5 (41.1–49.8) | 59.2 (55.1–63.2) | <.001 | 39.7 (37.2–42.2) | 44.4 (39.3–49.4) | <.001 |
Percent of “must pass” elements achieved | 34.9 (33.1–36.7) | 32.8 (30.8–34.9) | 39.9 (37.3–42.5) | 46.9 (42.7–51.1) | 58.4 (54.5–62.3) | <.001 | 41.4 (38.9–43.8) | 45.2 (40.5–49.8) | <.001 |
Percent of practices with a given level of recognition | |||||||||
Not recognized | 46.3 (42.5–50.2) | 50.2 (45.5–54.8) | 35.9 (31.0–41.2) | 26.3 (19.9–33.8) | 12.2 (8.3–17.6) | <.001 | 34.5 (29.7–39.6) | 27.7 (20.1–36.8) | <.001 |
Level 1 | 30.5 (26.8–34.2) | 30.0 (25.5–35.0) | 31.9 (27.3–36.9) | 34.7 (28.5–41.5) | 24.0 (18.1–31.2) | 31.7 (27.5–36.2) | 33.0 (25.0–42.1) | ||
Level 2 | 14.5 (12.3–16.7) | 12.6 (10.2–15.5) | 21.4 (17.6–25.7) | 19.3 (14.6–25.0) | 28.3 (21.8–35.9) | 21.0 (17.5–25.0) | 22.0 (16.3–29.1) | ||
Level 3 | 8.7 (6.8–10.6) | 7.2 (5.3–9.8) | 10.8 (7.9–14.5) | 19.7 (14.4–26.4) | 35.5 (27.7–44.2) | 12.8 (9.8–16.6) | 17.3 (11.8–24.7) |
The denominator for a practice’s infrastructure score was based on the NAMCS items (that mapped to specific NCQA elements) for which it reported data. The maximum denominator for the score was 59 points; however, the denominator value changed in the setting of missing data.
p-value is for the comparison between solo/partnership, small, medium, and large group practices.
p-value is for the comparison between solo/partnership, single-specialty, and mutli-specialty group practices.
NCQA, National Committee on Quality Assurance.