Purpose To develop criteria to identify thresholds for minimally acceptable physician
performance in interpreting screening mammography studies and to profile the impact that …

Purpose To develop criteria to identify thresholds for the minimally acceptable performance
of physicians interpreting diagnostic mammography studies. Materials and Methods In an …

Background Comparing and ranking hospitals based on health outcomes is becoming
increasingly popular, although case-mix differences between hospitals and random …

Health indices provide information to the general public on the health condition of the
community. They can also be used to inform the government's policy making, to evaluate the …

Introduction The role of transparency in quality of care is becoming ever more important.
Various indicators are used to assess hospital performance. Judging hospitals using rank …

When a ranking of institutions such as medical centers or universities is based on a
numerical measure of performance provided with a standard error, confidence intervals (CIs) …

Objectives: The performance of ICUs can be compared by ranking them into a league table
according to their risk-adjusted mortality rate. The statistical quality of a league table can be …

We consider the problem of constructing simultaneous confidence intervals (CIs) for the
ranks of n means based on their estimates together with the (known) standard errors of …

Background Key challenges in benchmarking health service achievement of policy goals in
areas such as chronic disease are: 1) developing indicators and understanding how policy …

When a ranking of institutions such as medical centers or universities is based on an
indicator provided with a standard error, confidence intervals should be calculated to assess …