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Table 2 Relationship between the HSMRs of each consecutive year (single-year model)

From: Capturing the trends in hospital standardized mortality ratios for pneumonia: a retrospective observational study in Japan (2010 to 2018)

Month and year

N

R

P

Jan. 2010–Dec. 2011

93

0.720

< 0.001

Jan. 2011–Dec. 2012

95

0.616

< 0.001

Jan. 2012–Dec. 2013

85

0.687

< 0.001

Jan. 2013–Dec. 2014

73

0.761

< 0.001

Jan. 2014–Dec. 2015

70

0.760

< 0.001

Jan. 2015–Dec. 2016

63

0.768

< 0.001

Jan. 2016–Dec. 2017

62

0.762

< 0.001

Jan. 2017–Dec. 2018

50

0.649

< 0.001

  1. N number of hospitals, R correlation coefficient (Spearman’s non-parametric correlation), P two-tailed significance
  2. Positive correlation coefficient means that hospitals with lower/higher HSMRs are likely to get same results in the following year
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Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

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