Hospital-level associations with 30-day patient mortality after cardiac surgery: a tutorial on the application and interpretation of marginal and multilevel logistic regression

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Marginal and multilevel logistic regression methods can estimate associations between hospital-level factors and patient-level 30-day mortality outcomes after cardiac surgery. However, it is not widely understood how the interpretati...

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Main Authors: Sanagou Masoumeh, Wolfe Rory, Forbes Andrew, Reid Christopher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-03-01
Series:BMC Medical Research Methodology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/12/28