Bayeswatch: an overview of Bayesian statistics

PC Austin, LJ Brunner… - Journal of evaluation in …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Increasingly, clinical research is evaluated on the quality of its statistical analysis.
Traditionally, statistical analyses in clinical research have been carried out from a …

A Canadian comparison of data sources for coronary artery bypass surgery outcome “report cards”

WA Ghali, DM Rothwell, H Quan, R Brant, JV Tu… - American Heart …, 2000 - Elsevier
Background Prior comparisons of administrative versus clinical data for creating coronary
artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery outcome “report cards” are all from the United States and …

Problems for clinical judgement: 4. Surviving in the report card era

JV Tu, MJ Schull, LE Ferris, JE Hux, DA Redelmeier - CMAJ, 2001 - Can Med Assoc
HEALTH CARE REPORT CARDS INVOLVE COMPARISONS of health care systems,
hospitals or clinicians on performance measures. They are going to be an important feature …

Analysing low-risk patient populations allows better discrimination between high-performing and low-performing hospitals: a case study using inhospital mortality from …

M Coory, I Scott - BMJ Quality & Safety, 2007 - qualitysafety.bmj.com
Objective: To assess whether performance indicators based on administrative hospital data
can be rendered more useful by stratifying them according to risk status of the patient …