Week 2: Variance Management Systems Issues Bob Luttman, Robert Luttman & Associates
Home Page Overview Statistical Issues Multi-collinearity Cascade Effect Sample Size Halo Effect Operational Issues: Documentation and Reporting Too Much Data Traditional Pathway / Variance Documentation What's Wrong With This Picture? Operational Issues: Summary Legal Issues: Overview Legal Issues The Biggest Issue: So What? Summary and Conclusion Assignment Feedback Questions?	Legal Issues First, I am NOT a lawyer and this is NOT legal advice. The only legal advice I will give is to talk to your lawyer(s). What is important, though, is that pathways are your care process and your variance data is - or should be - your story of what actually happened to patients as you treated them. Chris Nolin has written a seminal monograph on this issue (available from the Center for Case Management) and presents some relevant conclusions.   On the next page.

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