Slide Presentation from the AHRQ 2007 Annual Conference

Identifying Existing Efficiency Measures

• Peer-reviewed literature
  • Medline and EconLit search: 1990-2005
  • Titles, abstracts, and articles reviewed by 2 independent reviewers; consensus resolution
  • Excluded non-U.S. studies
• "Gray" literature review
  • Purposive, reputational sampling
  • 8 vendors identified & reviewed