Benchmarking with Spine Tango: Potentials and pitfalls

European Spine Journal

Volumn 18, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2009, Pages

  Röder, Christoph ^a   Staub, L ^a,b   Dietrich, D ^a   Zweig, T ^a   Melloh, M ^c   Aebi, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Online statistics; Spine Tango

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; CALCULATION; DATA ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REGISTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SPINE SURGERY;

BENCHMARKING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INTERNET; NEUROSURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY CONTROL; REGISTRIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELECTION BIAS; SOFTWARE; SPINAL DISEASES;

EID: 68549126999     PISSN: 09406719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-009-0943-7     Document Type: Review

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