On Monitoring Outcomes of Medical Providers

Statistics in Biosciences

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 286-302

  Kalbfleisch, John D ^a   Wolfe, Robert A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b ARBOR RESEARCH COLLABORATIVE FOR HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Confounding; Empirical null; Estimation error; Fixed effects; Flagging; Random effects

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; DIALYSIS; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LINEAR SYSTEM; MEDICAL AUDIT; MONITORING; NURSING HOME; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURGICAL WARD; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84887318654     PISSN: 18671764     EISSN: 18671772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12561-013-9093-x     Document Type: Article

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