Comparing dialysis centre mortality outcomes across Australia and New Zealand: identifying unusually performing centres 2008-2013.
Jessica KaszaKevan R PolkinghorneRory WolfeStephen P McDonaldMark R MarshallPublished in: BMC health services research (2018)
We demonstrate that standardised mortality ratios are useful to identify facilities that have statistically outlying mortality risk. Our criterion for determining whether a centre has better or worse performance than expected is statistical, and thus analyses such as ours can serve only as a screening tool, and are only one aspect of assessment of "quality" of performance.