What question did this study set out to answer?

To estimate physicians' work for various services and determine the reliability and validity of these estimates.

Estimating Physicians' Work for a Resource-Based Relative-Value Scale

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Randomized trial estimates physician work for services, suggesting a new payment model for healthcare.

To estimate physicians' work for various services and determine the reliability and validity of these estimates.
Developed a resource-based relative-value scale incorporating total work input, practice costs, and specialty training costs.
Defined and estimated physician's work across four major dimensions: time, mental effort, technical skill, and psychological stress.
Evaluated the reproducibility and consistency of physician ratings of work across services.
Physicians can reliably rate the relative amount of work for services considering all four major work dimensions.
The ratings were found to be highly reproducible and consistent, indicating probable validity of the estimates.

Hsiao et al. (1988) studied this question.

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