Outlier identification and monitoring of institutional or clinician performance: an overview of statistical methods and application to national audit data

• Main Authors: Menelaos Pavlou (Author), Gareth Ambler (Author), Rumana Z. Omar (Author), Andrew T. Goodwin (Author), Uday Trivedi (Author), Peter Ludman (Author), Mark de Belder (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Institutions or clinicians (units) are often compared according to a performance indicator such as in-hospital mortality. Several approaches have been proposed for the detection of outlying units, whose performance deviates from the overall performance. Methods We provide an over...