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Letter to the editor
Funnel plots for institutional comparison
  1. D Spiegelhalter
  1. Senior Scientist, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 2SR, UK; david.spiegelhalter@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/qhc.11.4.390-a

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    Mohammed and colleagues1,2 have suggested the use of Shewhart control charts as a means of presenting performance indicator results without spurious ranking into “league tables”. They choose to plot the observed number of events against the volume of cases on a square root scale; unfortunately this choice appears unintuitive, obscures the observed event rates, and leads to rather approximate control limits. A …

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    Copyright 2002 Quality and Safety in Health Care