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[Agency] AHRQ [Project Title] Physician Quality Reporting and Patient Outcomes in Medicare [Institution] UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES [Amount] $0 [Summary] One of the most important developments in the U.S. health care system has been the collection of data on quality of care. Medicare's Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) is the nation's largest data collection effort on health care quality from individual providers. To understand if this quality reporting makes a difference, this study will analyze relationships among physician reporting, quality outcomes, and expenditures, with special attention to whether results vary according to the race, ethnicity, or sex of the patient, or by type of chronic disease diagnosis. [Completion/ Closing Date] 10/02/2010 [Link] link [Category] 
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