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VARIATION METRICS IN ECHO

 

1. MEASUREMENT OF THE VARIATION

  1.1.ECHO GEOGRAPHIC METHODS

  1.2.ECHO HOSPITAL-SPECIFIC METHODS

2. MEASUREMENT OF SOCIOECONOMIC EQUITY

 

UPCOMING ENTRIES:

SCV and EB confidence intervals

Improving SUR estimation with disease mapping techniques

Improving SUR estimates adding the effect of time

False discovery rate: its effect in some ECHO examples

 

 

ECHO has expanded the usual approach in healthcare performance international comparison based on contrasting the average behaviour of each country, by adding the analysis of the variation, within and across countries, at different levels of interest.

This is possible since ECHO gathered individual patient level data (virtually all the discharges produced in the ECHO countries over the study period), and each discharge was allocated both to a geographic unit (the place where the patient lived) and to the hospital where the patient was treated.

The variation framework utilizes different analytical tools, most of them adapted from techniques used in epidemiology and econometrics.