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Fig. 3 | BMC Medical Research Methodology

Fig. 3

From: Ordinal outcome analysis improves the detection of between-hospital differences in outcome

Fig. 3

Results of the simulation based on the IMPACT database (a) and results of the simulation based on the PRACTICE trial (b). The graph shows mean number of patients which need to be included per hospital in order to be able to find the number better or worse performing hospitals, set out for data which has been dichotomized, dichotomized for mortality/severe disability, and which was analyzed respectively on the full ordinal GOS scale (a), the modified Rankin scale (b)

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