Statistical science and monitoring healthcare systems: experience in the NHS Seminar
- Time:
- 15:00
- Date:
- 17 May 2007
- Venue:
- Building 62 (Boldrewood) Lecture Theatre 2
For more information regarding this seminar, please email Mrs Jane Revell at j.revell@southampton.ac.uk .
Event details
Special seminar
Recent scandals in the UK have contributed to interest in setting up a surveillance system for health outcomes using routine data-sources. Many difficult issues arise: the quality and completeness of data, choice of indicators, specifying the statistical monitoring procedures, setting thresholds for sounding automatic 'alarms', and deciding what a human should do when an alarm goes off. From a technical perspective, it is natural to consider adapting traditional industrial control chart method such as CUSUMS, but these need to be risk-adjusted and take into account the extreme multiplicity problem, with many indicators being monitored on each of hundreds of organisations. I will talk about possible solutions to these problems, and discuss an experimental system being investigated by the Heathcare Commission.
Speaker information
Professor David Spiegelhalter , MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge. David Spiegelhalter FRS is a Senior Scientist at the MRC Biostatistics Unit and Honorary Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Cambridge. He has worked extensively on theory, applications and software for Bayesian analysis, but has recently also focused on performance monitoring. He is a statistical consultant for the Healthcare Commission, which is the independent inspector and regulator of the NHS in England.