PQRS Participation, Inappropriate Utilization of Health Care Services, and Medicare Expenditures

Social Sciences

• reporting system 100%
• health care services 89%
• expenditures 71%
• utilization 64%
• physician 61%
• participation 42%
• statistical significance 18%
• Health Care Providers 17%
• Quality of care 17%
• medical practice 17%
• Health Care System 16%
• chronic illness 16%
• random sample 15%
• rural area 13%

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Medicare 83%
• Health Expenditures 82%
• Health Services 71%
• Physicians 51%
• Physiological Phenomena 16%
• Quality of Health Care 14%
• Health Personnel 14%
• Heart 10%
• Eye 10%
• Delivery of Health Care 9%