Citation

Taylor MS, Sacco WJ, Champion HR. Comput. Biol. Med. 1986; 16(1): 1-6.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1986, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3948492

Abstract

This paper investigates the power of a statistical procedure for comparing a unit's survival experience to a standard survival curve. The power of the statistical procedure provides a measure of how sensitive the test is to departures from the nominal values provided by the standard survival curve. This procedure has been used recently in a number of evaluation of care studies. A power study for thirty-two adult blunt trauma patients, contributed by a participating hospital to a national data base collected at Washington Hospital Center, is detailed.

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