Community Tracking Study Physician Survey, 1998-1999 : [United States] / Center for Studying Health System Change.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 3267.

ICPSR ; 3267

Community Tracking Study Series ; 3267

Language:

English

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First ICPSR Version.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2001.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

This study comprises the second round of the physician survey component of the Community Tracking Study (CTS), sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The CTS is a national study designed to track changes in the health care system and the effects of the changes on care delivery and on individuals. Central to the design of the CTS is its community focus. Sixty sites (51 metropolitan areas and 9 nonmetropolitan areas) were randomly selected to form the core of the CTS and to be representative of the nation as a whole. As in the first round of the physician survey (COMMUNITY TRACKING STUDY PHYSICIAN SURVEY, 1996-1997: [UNITED STATES] (ICPSR 2597)), the second round was administered to physicians in the 60 CTS sites and to a supplemental national sample of physicians. The survey instrument collected information on physician supply and specialty distribution, practice arrangements and physician ownership of practices, physician time allocation, sources of practice revenue, level and determinants of physician compensation, provision of charity care, career satisfaction, physicians' perceptions of their ability to deliver care, views on effects of care management strategies, and various other aspects of physicians' practice of medicine. For primary care physicians (PCPs), the instrument also provided vignettes of clinical presentations for which there was no prescribed method of treatment. PCPs were asked to state the percentage of patients for whom they would recommend the course of action specified in each particular vignette. Part 3, the Site and County Crosswalk Data File, identifies the counties that constitute each site. Part 4, Physician Survey Summary File, contains site-level estimates and standard errors for selected physician characteristics, e.g., the percentage of physicians who were foreign medical school graduates, the mean age of physicians, and the... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03267

Contents:

Part 1: Public-Use Version of the Main Data File; Part 2: Restricted-Use Version of the Main Data File; Part 3: Site and County Crosswalk Data File; Part 4: Physician Survey Summary File

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2004-10-30.

Start: 1998; and end: 1999.

OCLC:

61153857

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.