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Shipman's statistical legacy
Author(s) -
Spiegelhalter David,
Best Nicky
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2004.00002.x
Subject(s) - prison , quality (philosophy) , control (management) , history , law , operations research , criminology , medicine , psychology , computer science , political science , engineering , philosophy , artificial intelligence , epistemology
Harold Shipman, who in January committed suicide in prison, has become notorious the world over as one of the most prolific serial killers of all time. His case has also seriously dented public confidence in doctors. David Spiegelhalter and Nicky Best explain how industrial quality control techniques could be adapted to signal when death rates among a doctor's patients are surprisingly high, and the tricky issues that would arise in implementing such a monitoring system.