Calibration Belt for Quality-of-Care Assessment Based on Dichotomous Outcomes

Stefano Finazzi; Daniele Poole; Davide Luciani; Paola E. Cogo; Guido Bertolini

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0016110

Loading metrics

Open Access

Peer-reviewed

Research Article

Calibration Belt for Quality-of-Care Assessment Based on Dichotomous Outcomes

Stefano Finazzi ,

* E-mail: finazzi@sissa.it

Affiliation Astrophysics Sector, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati and Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Sezione di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
⨯
Daniele Poole,

Affiliations Intensive Care Unit, Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, San Martino Hospital, Belluno, Italy, GiViTI Steering Committee, Italy
⨯
Davide Luciani,

Affiliation Unit of Clinical Knowledge Engineering, Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology, ‘Mario Negri’ Institute for Pharmacological Research, Milano, Italy
⨯
Paola E. Cogo,

Affiliations GiViTI Steering Committee, Italy, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Padova University, Padova, Italy
⨯
Guido Bertolini

Affiliations GiViTI Steering Committee, Italy, Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology, GiViTI Coordinating Center, ‘Mario Negri’ Institute for Pharmacological Research, Ranica, Italy
⨯

Calibration Belt for Quality-of-Care Assessment Based on Dichotomous Outcomes

Stefano Finazzi,
Daniele Poole,
Davide Luciani,
Paola E. Cogo,
Guido Bertolini

Published: February 23, 2011
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0016110

Reader Comments

Post a new comment on this article

Errata

Posted by finazzi on 26 Aug 2011 at 09:02 GMT

and is the inverse of
the cumulative distribution with 2 degrees of freedom.
http://plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0016110#article1.body1.sec2.sec3.p3

The authors want to signal some typos in Eq. (10) and in the following text:

(1) All the sums go from 0 (not 1) to m.

(2) The chi² distribution has m+1 (not 2) degrees of freedom.

Analogous typos are present in Appendix S1, in Eqs. (S4), (S6) and (S8) and in the text before Eqs. (S4) and (S6).

No competing interests declared.

Subject Areas
?

For more information about PLOS Subject Areas, click here.
We want your feedback. Do these Subject Areas make sense for this article? Click the target next to the incorrect Subject Area and let us know. Thanks for your help!

Medical risk factors
Is the Subject Area "Medical risk factors" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.
Quality of care
Is the Subject Area "Quality of care" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.
Intensive care units
Is the Subject Area "Intensive care units" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.
Curve fitting
Is the Subject Area "Curve fitting" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.
Extrapolation
Is the Subject Area "Extrapolation" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.
Forecasting
Is the Subject Area "Forecasting" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.
Italian people
Is the Subject Area "Italian people" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.
Test statistics
Is the Subject Area "Test statistics" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.

Calibration Belt for Quality-of-Care Assessment Based on Dichotomous Outcomes

Calibration Belt for Quality-of-Care Assessment Based on Dichotomous Outcomes

Reader Comments

Post Your Discussion Comment

Why should this posting be reviewed?

Thank You!

Errata

Posted by finazzi on 26 Aug 2011 at 09:02 GMT