Individual and Clustered Rankability of ICUs According to Case-Mix-Adjusted Mortality.

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Published in Crit Care Med on May 01, 2016

Authors

Ilona W M Verburg1, Nicolette F de Keizer, Rebecca Holman, Dave Dongelmans, Evert de Jonge, Niels Peek

Author Affiliations

1: 1Department of Medical Informatics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 2Health eResearch Centre, Institute of Population Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom. 3Department of Intensive Care, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 4Department of Intensive Care, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.

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