Journal article
Causal Analysis of Emergency Department Delays
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Improvement teams make causal inferences, but the methods they use are based on statistical associations. This article shows how data and statistical models can be used to help improvement teams make causal inferences and find the root causes of problems.
METHODS: This article uses attribution data, competing risk survival analysis, and Bayesian network probabilities to analyze excessive emergency department (ED) stays within one …
Authors
Kheirbek RE; Beygi S; Zargoush M; Alemi F; Smith AW; Fletcher RD; Seton PN; Hawkins BA
Journal
Quality Management in Health Care, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 162–166
Publisher
Wolters Kluwer
Publication Date
7 2015
DOI
10.1097/qmh.0000000000000067
ISSN
1063-8628