Improving the quality of patient care using reliability measures: A classification tree approach

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 184-196

  Graham, Petra L ^a   Kuhnert, P M ^a   Cook, D A ^b   Mengersen, K ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Binary response; Health; Intensive care; Quality monitoring; Recursive partitioning

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

BIOMETRY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT CARE; PROBABILITY; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 33846213098     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2461     Document Type: Article

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