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Incorporating statistical uncertainty in the use of physician cost profiles

John L Adams1, Elizabeth A McGlynn1, J William Thomas2 and Ateev Mehrotra3,4*

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1 RAND, Santa Monica, CA, USA

2 Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, USA

3 Division of General Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

4 RAND, 4570 Fifth Avenue, Suite 600, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-2665, USA

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BMC Health Services Research 2010, 10:57 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-10-57

Published: 5 March 2010

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Technical appendix to accompany paper entitled "Incorporating statistical uncertainty in the use of physician cost profiles". The purpose of this technical appendix is to provide more detail about the methods in the manuscript in particular on how we calculated the standard errors of physician cost profiles as well as supplemental analyses on how we compare the two physician categorization systems.

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