ICU Mortality Benchmarking
Multilevel methods help avoid reducing ICU mortality performance to a binary in-control or out-of-control label. Annual funnel plots alone are insufficient for ICU mortality benchmarking. A single-year in-control label can misleadingly imp…
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Multilevel methods help avoid reducing ICU mortality performance to a binary in-control or out-of-control label. Annual funnel plots alone are insufficient for ICU mortality benchmarking. A single-year in-control label can misleadingly imply that all ICUs inside control limits perform similarly. Mortality performance assessment should combine annual funnel plots, multilevel MOR estimates, and longitudinal SMR trends.