Exploring relationships between in-hospital mortality and hospital case volume using random forest: results of a cohort study based on a nationwide sample of German hospitals, 2016–2018
Abstract Background Relationships between in-hospital mortality and case volume were investigated for various patient groups in many empirical studies with mixed results. Typically, those studies relied on (semi-)parametric statistical models like logistic regression. Those models impose strong assu...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2022-01-01
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Series: | BMC Health Services Research |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-07414-z |