Concurrent Peer Review of Psychiatric Care: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

摘要

This paper emerges from an evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of peer review in altering either utilization patterns or reimbursement for two CHAMPUS-eligible populations receiving psychiatric care. The major focus is on a methodological problem heretofore overlooked in PSRO evaluation: autocorrelated data. Our results show that by taking autocorrelation of data into account, the findings were altered significantly.