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Ruyun Jin1, Mansen Wang1, Lian Wang1
1Center for Cardiovascular Analytics, Research and Data Science (CARDS), Providence Heart Institute, Providence Research Network, Portland, Oregon.
Abstract:
We present an additional advantage of the Risk-Adjusted CUSUM (RA-CUSUM), namely, that its slope can be quantified and is in fact equivalent to Observed (O) minus Expected (E) mortality. That is, the height of the RA-CUSUM is the O minus E deaths, which measures performance since the start of the series, and the slope of the RA-CUSUM is the O minus E mortality which measures performance during a chosen interval. We present a useful graphical tool (Slope-Meter) to allow approximation of this mortality difference by the viewer.
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