TY - JOUR
T1 - Risk-adjusted continuous outcome monitoring with an EWMA Chart: Could it have detected excess mortality among intensive care patients at Bundaberg Base Hospital?
AU - Pilcher, David
AU - Hoffman, Toni
AU - Thomas, Chris
AU - Ernest, David
AU - Hart, Graeme
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Objective: To test whether applying a continuous riskadjusted charting method, using an exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) chart, would have been useful for monitoring outcomes of patients admitted to the intensive care unit at Bundaberg Base Hospital, Queensland, between
November 2000 and December 2005.
Conclusions: Continuous monitoring of outcomes using an EWMA chart may have advantages over other techniques. Had data been available, analysis with an EWMA chart might have prompted review of processes and outcomes among patients at Bundaberg Base Hospital ICU.
AB - Objective: To test whether applying a continuous riskadjusted charting method, using an exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) chart, would have been useful for monitoring outcomes of patients admitted to the intensive care unit at Bundaberg Base Hospital, Queensland, between
November 2000 and December 2005.
Conclusions: Continuous monitoring of outcomes using an EWMA chart may have advantages over other techniques. Had data been available, analysis with an EWMA chart might have prompted review of processes and outcomes among patients at Bundaberg Base Hospital ICU.
UR - http://search.informit.com.au/fullText;dn=941083513705143;res=IELHEA
M3 - Article
SN - 1441-2772
VL - 12
SP - 36
EP - 41
JO - Critical Care and Resuscitation
JF - Critical Care and Resuscitation
IS - 1
ER -