Open AccessUsing funnel plots to explore variation in cancer mortality across primary care trusts in South-East England
Author(s) -
Elizabeth Davies,
V. Mak,
Jane Ferguson,
Stephen Conaty,
Henrik Møller
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1741-3850
pISSN - 1741-3842
DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdn044
Subject(s) - funnel plot , primary care , medicine , variation (astronomy) , regional variation , geography , demography , environmental health , family medicine , political science , publication bias , sociology , meta analysis , law , physics , astrophysics
In 2004, the English government set a target to reduce the difference in cancer mortality in those aged under 75 between spearhead primary care trusts (PCTs) and all others by 6% in 2010.
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