Bayesian assessment of overtriage and undertriage at a level i trauma centre

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1874, 2008, Pages 2265-2277

  DiDomenico, Paul B ^a   Pietzsch, Jan B ^a   Paté Cornell, M Elisabeth ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Risk management; Trauma triage

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH RISKS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; SAFETY FACTOR;

(E ,3E) PROCESS; ANALYSIS METHODS; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BAYESIAN APPROACHES; BAYESIAN ASSESSMENT; BEST ESTIMATE (BE); ERROR RATE (ER); EXPERT OPINION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; IN ORDER; POSTERIOR DISTRIBUTIONS; POTENTIAL ERRORS; PRIOR PROBABILITIES; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; RANDOM SAMPLES; SYSTEM'S PERFORMANCE;

ERROR ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOMETRY; CLASSIFICATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EXPERT WITNESS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INJURY; RISK MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

BAYES THEOREM; BIOMETRY; DATA COLLECTION; EXPERT TESTIMONY; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRIAGE; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 45749156065     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0036     Document Type: Article

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