Optimal statistical decisions for hospital report cards

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 11-19

  Austin, Peter C ^a,b   Anderson, Geoffrey M ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decision analysis; Hospital report cards; Provider profiling; Quality of health care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; JOB PERFORMANCE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; PATIENT INFORMATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; ECONOMICS, HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 12344277583     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X04273142     Document Type: Article

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