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. 1998 Jun 27;316(7149):1931–1935. doi: 10.1136/bmj.316.7149.1931

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Annual league tables of risk adjusted mortality in nine neonatal intensive care units for each year and for all years combined. Mortality is lower than expected when the W score and 95% confidence interval are both <0. Hospitals were ranked in descending order of apparent performance by W score. The 95% confidence intervals of the hospitals that apparently performed best and those that apparently performed worst overlapped for every year except year 3