Bias in estimates of confidence intervals for health outcome report cards

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 553-558

  Faris, Peter D ^a   Ghali, William A ^b   Brant, Rollin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Health care; Hospital mortality; Logistic models; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEART SURGERY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORTALITY; PATIENT INFORMATION; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURGEON;

EID: 0037489583     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(03)00048-9     Document Type: Article

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