Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Hopkins researchers admit flaws in study of Medicare efforts
Published in Lab Law Weekly, November 18th, 2005
In a letter to the editor published in the Journal of the American Medican Association (JAMA) recently, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health researchers Dr. Gerard Anderson and Claire Snyder acknowledge that critics have raised "valid points" about the core methodology the researchers used to evaluate Medicare Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) earlier this year.
Their statement is a response to a number of letters published in JAMA recently by experts who identify critical flaws in the Snyder-Anderson methodology.
In the June 15th edition of JAMA, Snyder and Anderson published a study contending that the...
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Source: Lab Law Weekly (2005-11-18)
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