Background: This study explores the appropriateness of psychotropic drug (PD) use for
neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) in nursing home patients with dementia. Methods: A cross …

Objective There is a growing focus on quality and safety in healthcare. Outcome indicators
are increasingly used to compare hospital performance and to rank hospitals, but the …

Large language models are often ranked according to their level of alignment with human
preferences--a model is better than other models if its outputs are more frequently preferred …

BACKGROUND Pregnancy rates cannot be used reliably for comparison of IVF clinic
performance because of differences in patients between clinics. We investigate if differences …

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 …

Ranks estimated from data are uncertain and this poses a challenge in many applications.
However, estimated ranks are deterministic functions of estimated parameters, so the …

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) …

Background Rankings based on outcome are often used to present health care provider
performance. These rankings do however not reflect that part of the variation in outcome …

Background: The use of league tables during the last decade has frequently been employed
to assess quality in health care. However, few studies have attempted to assess quality by …

Objectives Data on the performance of health boards, hospitals and medical specialists, etc.,
are being collected at various levels in the health-care system and are often presented as …