Slide Presentation from the AHRQ 2007 Annual Conference

Different Worlds of Efficiency Measures

• There is an almost total separation between the published studies of health care efficiency and the use of efficiency measures by providers, payers, and purchasers
  • Academic measures focus on multiple input/output models
  • Vendor measures focus on specifying outputs
• Purchasers and health plans are generally using measures developed by vendors
  • Little independent testing of reliability and validity has been reported on these metrics