The Use of Scan Statistics and Control Charts in Assessing Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Quality Control Programs
Scan statistics are concerned with clusters of events over time. In the realm of critical care medicine, such clusters might include the occurrence of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). Given N patients over time, the number of observations in a “moving window” of fixed length can be counted and...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
2010-01-01
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| Series: | Journal of Healthcare Engineering |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1260/2040-2295.1.4.579 |