Whose fault are wrong predictions: the clinician, the patient or the pigeon?

Anaesthesia

Volumn 72, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 1438-1443

  Carlisle, J B ^a  

^a TORBAY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

big data; noise; prediction; signal

Indexed keywords

APACHE; EDITORIAL; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MORTALITY RATE; MORTALITY RISK; PATIENT; PATIENT RISK; PHYSICIAN; PIGEON; PREDICTION; SURGERY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

APACHE; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 85033456428     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anae.14087     Document Type: Editorial

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