100 Apples Divided by 15 Red Herrings: A Cautionary Tale from the Mid-19th Century on Comparing Hospital Mortality Rates

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• Publication year

  1996

• Venue

  Annals of Internal Medicine

• Publication date

  1996-06-15

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.7326/0003-4819-124-12-199606150-00009PMID 8633823
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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