Identifying unusual performance in Australian and New Zealand intensive care units from 2000 to 2010

Table 5 Hospital level and locality for the 27 ICUs identified as unusual at Stage 1

Random ID	Hospital Level	Locality	Years	*p-approx*
100	Private	New South Wales	2006-10	0.002
57	Private	New South Wales	2007-10	0.008
116	Private	New South Wales	2005-08	0.010
79	Metropolitan	Queensland	2004-10	0.015
131	Metropolitan	New South Wales	2000-02	0.017
18	Private	Queensland	2003-06, 08-10	0.023
72	Rural	Victoria	2008-10	0.025
120	Private	Australian Capital Territory	2001-07	0.027
108	Private	New South Wales	2000-10	0.030
49	Metropolitan	Victoria	2001, 04, 08-10	0.038
66	Tertiary	South Australia	2000-10	0.045
24	Private	Queensland	2001-10	0.058
112	Rural	Victoria	2002-10	0.065
19	Private	New South Wales	2002-10	0.080
54	Tertiary	South Australia	2000-10	0.915
2	Tertiary	New South Wales	2008-10	0.917
89	Private	South Australia	2005-06, 08-10	0.928
129	Private	New South Wales	2010	0.938
95	Private	Victoria	2001-06, 09	0.942
134	Metropolitan	Victoria	2003-08	0.942
81	Private	Victoria	2009-10	0.950
104	Metropolitan	Queensland	2000-10	0.953
44	Private	Queensland	2002-10	0.953
16	Private	Queensland	2001-10	0.972
93	Private	Queensland	2009-10	0.978
91	Metropolitan	New South Wales	2008-10	0.987
140	Private	Victoria	2000-02	0.997

14 ICUs with p - approx less than 0.1 are over-performers (low mortality) and 13 ICUs with p - approx greater than 0.9 are under-performers (high mortality). The Years column gives the years the ICU contributed to the dataset.

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