Statistical methods for profiling providers of medical care: Issues and applications

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 92, Issue 439, 1997, Pages 803-814

  Normand, Sharon Lise T ^a   Glickman, Mark E ^b   Gatsonis, Constantine A ^c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Excess mortality; Gibbs sampler; Hierarchical regression model; Posterior inference; Quality of care

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842498078     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1997.10474036     Document Type: Article

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