Risk-adjustment schemes are used to monitor hospital performance, on the assumption that
excess mortality not explained by case mix is largely attributable to suboptimal care. We …

Background Despite the promising benefits of adaptive designs (ADs), their routine use,
especially in confirmatory trials, is lagging behind the prominence given to them in the …

Methods and results Ten days after the race questionnaires were mailed to random samples
(after stratification for age, sex, and previous experience) of about one in six of the 3462 …

An analysis of data from the United Kingdom multicentre study of postneonatal mortality has
been made to assess whether there are causally distinct groups of babies dying from the …

Background Appropriately conducted adaptive designs (ADs) offer many potential
advantages over conventional trials. They make better use of accruing data, potentially …

Methods and results Medical students recorded clinical details of allcontacts made by
runners with any of the 12 first-aid posts along the 26-2 mile (42 km) route of the 1982 …

Objective: To describe and quantify the patients and clinical activities of independent short
stay hospitals. Design: Retrospective survey of hospital records for sampled periods of one …

Between 1975 and 1 April 1986, public transport by bus in the metropolitan county of South
Yorkshire, England, was increasingly subsidised. Trends in road traffic accident casualties …

A study was undertaken to describe the consequences of implementing that part of the 1990
contract for general practitioners which requires them to offer health checks to all patients …

An investigation of 2165 qualified nurses joining eight NHS District Health Authorities
(DHAs) and 72 private sector institutions was undertaken in order to measure the skills …