Comparison of methods to identify outliers obeserved in health services small area variation studies.

Statistical Methods in Medical Research

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 531-546

  To, Teresa ^a,b,c   Williams, J Ivan ^b,c   Wu, Keyi ^b   Theriault, Marc Erick ^b   Goel, Vivek ^b,c  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHI SQUARE TEST; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH STATISTICS; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NORMAL VALUE; PATIENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ONTARIO; OUTLIERS, DRG; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 0344513164     PISSN: 09622802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0962280203sm350oa     Document Type: Article

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