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The probability of being identified as an outlier with commonly used funnel plot control limits for the standardised mortality ratio

BACKGROUND: Emphasis is increasingly being placed on the monitoring of clinical outcomes for health care providers. Funnel plots have become an increasingly popular graphical methodology used to identify potential outliers. It is assumed that a provider only displaying expected random variation (i.e...

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Autores principales: Seaton, Sarah E, Manktelow, Bradley N
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3441904/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22800471
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-12-98