Funnel plots for institutional comparison [2]

Quality and Safety in Health Care

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 390-391

  Spiegelhalter, David ^a  

^a MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CARE; LETTER; STROKE; UNITED KINGDOM;

BENCHMARKING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 0036905448     PISSN: 09638172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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