The evaluation of treatment when center-specific selection criteria vary with respect to patient risk

Biometrics

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 942-949

  DeLong, Elizabeth R ^a   Coombs, Laura P ^a   Ferguson, T Bruce ^b   Peterson, Eric D ^a  

^a DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Center effects; Clustering; Confounding; Dichotomous outcomes; Hierarchical logistic regression; Mixed model; Patient risk

Indexed keywords

CENTER EFFECT; CLUSTERINGS; CONFOUNDING; DICHOTOMOUS OUTCOME; HIERARCHICAL LOGISTIC REGRESSION; LOGISTICS REGRESSIONS; MIXED MODELING; PATIENT RISK; RISK ADJUSTMENT; SELECTION CRITERIA;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

DISEASE TREATMENT; HEALTH RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; BYPASS SURGERY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXTUBATION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL CARE; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SELECTION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES; PATIENT SELECTION; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RISK ADJUSTMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33644861011     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2005.00358.x     Document Type: Review

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