Table 4.
Estimate (95 Percent Confidence Interval) | |||||
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Measure of Practices’ Achievement | All Primary Care n = 60,859 |
Solo/Partner n = 46,829 |
Single-Specialty n = 9,014 |
Multi-Specialty n = 5,016 |
p-Value |
Mean infrastructure score* | 37.6 (34.9–40.3) | 35.4 (32.2–38.7) | 44.3 (39.9–48.8) | 46.4 (39.5–53.2) | <.001 |
Percent of “must pass” elements achieved | 37.9 (35.2–40.6) | 35.6 (32.3–38.8) | 45.5 (41.0–50.0) | 45.8 (40.0–51.9) | <.001 |
Percent of practices with a given level of recognition | |||||
Not recognized | 39.5 (33.6–45.5) | 43.1 (35.9–50.6) | 29.7 (22.8–37.6) | 24.0 (15.1–36.1) | .011 |
Level 1 | 30.9 (26.0–35.7) | 31.1 (25.1–37.7) | 29.0 (22.6–36.5) | 32.6 (21.4–46.2) | |
Level 2 | 18.3 (14.5–22.0) | 16.6 (12.6–21.7) | 23.6 (17.7–30.8) | 23.6 (16.0–33.2) | |
Level 3 | 11.8 (8.4–14.3) | 9.2 (6.2–13.5) | 17.7 (12.5–24.4) | 19.8 (12.6–29.7) |
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.
NCQA, National Committee on Quality Assurance.