Survey data is often much more complicated to interpret than it first appears
Friday, August 21st, 2009John Nelson writes…
Compensation and production surveys generally set the standard on physician compensation and production. The longer I spend looking at survey methodologies and results, the more I’m convinced that there are a lot of devils in the details that may misled many people who rely on these surveys. As an example, I’ve adapted below something originally written by, Leslie Flores, who is the director of SHM’s Practice Management Institute and my consulting colleague. What follows was written in response to a question about the differences in the SHM and MGMA surveys of hospitalist productivity and compensation, especially related to their results in the South. It serves an example of the complexity of interpreting the surveys. (more…)