Mortality and other event rates: what do they tell us about performance?

The authors review the nexus between outcome and quality as it applies to critical care. (non-author abstract)

• Publication year

  2003

• Venue

  Critical Care and Resuscitation

• Publication date

  2003-12-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Engineering

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  DOI 10.1016/s1441-2772(23)00866-9PMID 16563120
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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