Assessing the effect of estimation error on risk-adjusted CUSUM chart performance.

Mark A. Jones, Stefan H. Steiner. Assessing the effect of estimation error on risk-adjusted CUSUM chart performance. Int J Qual Health Care (2012) 24(2): 176–181 doi: 10.1093/intqhc/mzr082. The authors would like to correct an error identified in the above paper. Table 5 included incorrect information. The correct table has been reprinted below. Furthermore, in the discussion on p. 180 of this paper, one of the incorrect numbers in Table 5 was quoted. This section is reproduced below with the correct numbers. In the case of homogeneous patients where adverse event risk was assumed to be constant at 6.6% the estimated level of estimation error: SD (ARL0) = 85.9 was less than the equivalent risk-adjusted scenario where SD (ARL0) = 89.2 but only by around 4%.