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Strengths and weaknesses of hospital standardised mortality ratios

BMJ 2011; 342 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.c7116 (Published 21 January 2011) Cite this as: BMJ 2011;342:c7116

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Some background to this article

The sensitivity analysis has now been published in Health Services
Research.

ARTICLE:
Bottle A, Jarman B, Aylin P. Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratios:
Sensitivity Analyses on the Impact of Coding. Health Services Research
2011.

DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2011.01295.x

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1475-
6773.2011.01295.x/abstract

Competing interests: Co-author of original paper

30 September 2011
Paul Aylin
Clinical Reader
Imperial College