Importance

Loading Importance Indicators...

Abstract

A method and an apparatus for evaluating variations in a certain outcome between a given health care service provider and a reference health care service provider. The reference health care service provider is characterized and the given health care service provider are characterized respectively by a first and second rate of occurrence of the certain outcome. The apparatus comprises an input, a processing unit and an output. The input receives a plurality of records associated to respective patients treated by the given health care service provider that include a plurality of data elements indicative of respective determinant factors related to the certain outcome. The processing unit processes the plurality of records to identify at least one determinant factor as a candidate for causing a variation between the first and second rates of occurrence of the certain outcome. The output releases a signal conveying the at least one determinant factor.

Loading the Abstract Image...

First Claim