Figure 5
From: Identifying unusual performance in Australian and New Zealand intensive care units from 2000 to 2010
Predicted distributions of the ‘true worst’ numbers of deaths for each of the seven unusual ICUs. Each subplot shows the simulated probability density functions for the predicted number of deaths and predicted ‘true worst’ number of deaths for the seven ICUs identified as unusual. Each simulation is based on 50,000 replications. The observed number of deaths is indicated by the solid vertical line in each case. The plots are presented in order of the true worst (ICU 140), second true worst (ICU 16), and so on, up to the seventh true worst (ICU 54).