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The value of monitoring outcomes should be measured by the appropriateness of the response

Real-time monitoring of outcomes is becoming increasingly feasible in health care, and with it the hope of early detection of problems and the ability to tell whether interventions are having their desired effect. The next step should be to try to demonstrate that the reports of such monitoring syst...

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Autor principal: Hofer, Timothy P
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1550904/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16606476
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc4872
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description Real-time monitoring of outcomes is becoming increasingly feasible in health care, and with it the hope of early detection of problems and the ability to tell whether interventions are having their desired effect. The next step should be to try to demonstrate that the reports of such monitoring systems lead to reasonable responses and valid inferences about causality, and that we are not chasing red herrings.
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spelling pubmed-15509042006-08-22 The value of monitoring outcomes should be measured by the appropriateness of the response Hofer, Timothy P Crit Care Commentary Real-time monitoring of outcomes is becoming increasingly feasible in health care, and with it the hope of early detection of problems and the ability to tell whether interventions are having their desired effect. The next step should be to try to demonstrate that the reports of such monitoring systems lead to reasonable responses and valid inferences about causality, and that we are not chasing red herrings. BioMed Central 2006 2006-04-04 /pmc/articles/PMC1550904/ /pubmed/16606476 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc4872 Text en Copyright © 2006 BioMed Central Ltd
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The value of monitoring outcomes should be measured by the appropriateness of the response
title The value of monitoring outcomes should be measured by the appropriateness of the response
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1550904/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16606476
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc4872
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