Using control charts to monitor quality of hospital care with administrative data
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Using control charts to monitor quality of hospital care with administrative data.
OBJECTIVE Nearly all hospital-specific comparative analyses, based on administrative data, are presented using cross-sectional displays. In this paper, we compare cross-sectional analyses with sequential monitoring using control charts. DESIGN ANALYSIS of administrative data to compare cross-sectional funnel plots with one type of control chart: the risk-adjusted, expected-minus-observed p...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal for Quality in Health Care
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1353-4505,1464-3677
DOI: 10.1093/intqhc/mzm060