Statistical process control for monitoring standardized mortality ratios of a classification tree model

Methods of Information in Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 353-358

  Minne, Lilian ^a   Eslami, S ^a   de Keizer, N ^a   de Jonge, E ^b   de Rooij, S E ^a   Abu Hanna, A ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Intensive care; Predictive performance; Prognostic models; Statistical process control; Temporal validation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DECISION TREE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; DECISION TREES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NETHERLANDS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84864856820     PISSN: 00261270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3414/ME11-02-0044     Document Type: Article

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