Predicting the false alarm rate in multi-institution mortality monitoring

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1711-1718

  Bottle, A ^a   Aylin, P ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

health service; methodology; Quality; simulation; statistics

Indexed keywords

ALARM SYSTEMS; ERRORS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL; STATISTICS;

CLINICAL GROUPS; COMMON INTERESTS; CUMULATIVE SUM CHARTS; FALSE ALARM RATE; HEALTH SERVICES; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR RELATIONS; SIMULATION;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 79961055400     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jors.2010.121     Document Type: Article

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