Performance measurement an multilevel modelling by Dr. Nils Gutacker and Dr. Noemi Kreif, Hamburg

18 January 2018

Performance assessment of healthcare providers is now common practice in many healthcare systems. It serves to establish the systematic contribution of a provider to a metric of interest, typically measures of quality of care or resource utilization. The first part of the course will provide an introduction to the role of performance assessment in regulating the behaviour of healthcare providers through financial and non-financial incentives. We will also review methods to set performance standards against which providers can be compared and to adjust for differences in their patient mix. The second part will demonstrate how modern multilevel modelling techniques can be used to conduct performance assessment of providers while account for external production constraints and random variation. The course will offers a mixture of theory and applied sessions, with time dedicated to developing students’ own research proposals.