Risk-adjusted monitoring of survival times

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1386-1401

  Segol, Landon H ^a,c   Reynolds Jr , Marion R ^b   Woodall, William H ^b  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Control chart; CUSUM; Monitoring; Risk adjustment; Survival time

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; HEART SURGERY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURVIVAL TIME; BIOMETRY; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL;

BIOMETRY; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 67549136510     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3546     Document Type: Article

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