Investigation into GPs with high patient mortality: Monitoring death rates will become increasingly complex

Autor: Nick Kendall, Peter Old, Julie Billett
Rok vydání: 2004
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Zdroj: BMJ. 329:350.1
ISSN: 1468-5833
0959-8138
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.329.7461.350
Popis: EDITOR—Like Mohammed et al, we investigated several general practitioners (GPs) who signalled as having “unacceptably” high death rates in the study undertaken by Aylin et al.1 2 We also concluded that these higher than expected death rates were explained by a “nursing home effect.” Our methods included calculating standardised …
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