caa a22 4500 397519044 CHVBK 20180308164627.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199512 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/intqhc/7.4.373 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/intqhc/7.4.373 Monitoring Postoperative Pulmonary Embolisms in Australia—I. Variation Between Hospitals [Elektronische Daten] [PAUL P. FAHEY, ROBERT W. GIBBERD] Information on inter-hospital variation in clinical outcomes can be extracted from routinely collected morbidity data in Australia. Postoperative pulmonary embolism rates, one of seven clinical performance indicators now subject to review during Australian hospitals' quality accreditation surveys, is used as an example throughout. Using indirect statistical standardisation and Poisson models of random variation, we were able to identify five hospitals which recorded statistically significantly higher pulmonary embolism rates than average and three which recorded lower than expected rates. The application of these methods to all hospital outcome measures will assist in objectively monitoring the quality of patient care. © 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd Articles nationallicence Clinical indicators nationallicence quality monitoring nationallicence statistical methods nationallicence FAHEY PAUL P. Health Services Research Group, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia aut GIBBERD ROBERT W. Health Services Research Group, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia aut International Journal for Quality in Health Care Oxford University Press 7/4(1995-12), 373-380 1353-4505 7:4<373 1995 7 intqhc https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/7.4.373 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/7.4.373 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- FAHEY PAUL P. Health Services Research Group, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- GIBBERD ROBERT W. Health Services Research Group, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal for Quality in Health Care Oxford University Press 7/4(1995-12), 373-380 1353-4505 7:4<373 1995 7 intqhc Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 397519044 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford