American Heart Journal
Volume 155, Issue 1 , Pages 114-120 , January 2008

Risk-adjusted sequential probability ratio test control chart methods for monitoring operator and institutional mortality rates in interventional cardiology

  • Michael E. Matheny, MD, MS, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Decision Systems Group, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, MA
    • Division of General Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
    • Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Michael E. Matheny, MD, MS, MPH, Division of General Internal Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University, Suite 6000, Medical Center East North Tower, 1215 Twenty-first Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37232-8300.
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  • Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Decision Systems Group, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, MA
    • Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
    • ,
  • Frederic S. Resnic, MD, MS

      Affiliations

    • Decision Systems Group, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, MA
    • Division of Cardiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
    • Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Received 6 February 2007 ,Accepted 20 August 2007.

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 This research was supported in part by grants 1-T15-LM-07092 and R01-LM-08142-04 from the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD of the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. The authors have no conflict of interests to disclose.

PII: S0002-8703(07)00708-9

doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2007.08.022

American Heart Journal
Volume 155, Issue 1 , Pages 114-120 , January 2008

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