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SUBMITTER: Solomon PJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4021168 | biostudies-other | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
BMC medical research methodology 20140422
<h4>Background</h4>The Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) Adult Patient Database (APD) collects voluntary data on patient admissions to Australian and New Zealand intensive care units (ICUs). This paper presents an in-depth statistical analysis of risk-adjusted mortality of ICU admissions from 2000 to 2010 for the purpose of identifying ICUs with unusual performance.<h4>Methods</h4>A cohort of 523,462 patients from 144 ICUs was analysed. For each ICU, the natural logarith ...[more]