A comparison of hospital performance with non-ignorable missing covariates: An application to trauma care data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 27, 2008, Pages 5725-5744

  Kirkham, Jamie J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Comparative outcome analysis; Logistic regression; Missing covariate data; Missing data mechanism; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INJURY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 58749116848     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3379     Document Type: Article

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