Risk-adjusted survival time monitoring with an updating exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) control chart

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 444-454

  Steiner, Stefan H ^a   Jones, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b Queensland Health   (Australia)

Author keywords

Control chart; Monitoring; Risk adjustment; Survival time

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL TIME;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK ADJUSTMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 76549107670     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3788     Document Type: Article

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