Estimating with confidence the risk of rare adverse events including those with observed rates of zero

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 207-210

  Ho, Anthony M H ^a   Dion, Peter W ^b   Karmakar, Manoj K ^a   Lee, Anna ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b University of Toronto and Hotel Dieu Shaver Health and Rehabilitation Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0036202324     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/rapm.2002.30708     Document Type: Article

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