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Annex B Index

8 - Formal Written Comments, other comments and responses relating to statistical reports

8a. Formal Written Comments from various Bristol witnesses

    • Jarnadan Prasad Dhasmana “Response to Supplementary Statistical Evidence to the Inquiry” [pdf] [127KB]
    • Janardan Prasad Dhasmana – Further submission in response to: “Overview of Statistical Evidence…” (Spiegelhalter et al September 2000) [pdf] [875KB]
    • Janardan Prasad Dhasmana – Statistics and Data Analysis
      [pdf] [138KB]
    • Janardan Prasad Dhasmana – Issue C – The Service Provided: Nature and Outcomes [pdf] [929KB]
    • The Response of JD Wisheart to the “Overview of Statistical Evidence” presented to the Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry concerning the nature and outcomes of paediatric cardiac surgical services at Bristol relative to other specialist centres from 1984-1995 (1), by David Speigelhalter, Stephen Evans, Paul Aylin and Gordon Murray [pdf] [1.7MB]
    • Submission by James D Wisheart on The United Kingdom Cardiac Surgical Register as a Reliable Comparator
      [pdf] [255KB]
    • Response of J D Wisheart to a group of statistical papers [pdf] [1.7MB]
    • Statistics and Data Analysis: A review by James D Wisheart of the evidence offered by Professor SJW Evans, Dr P Aylin, Professor Murray, and Dr D Spiegelhalter, together with their oral evidence on Day 70, 3rd November [1999] [pdf] [1MB]
    • JDW’s review of data sources and statistical methods available to the Public Inquiry for discussion [pdf] [656KB]
    • Response of James D Wisheart to the letters of Drs D Macrae, A Houston, Kate Bull and Mr JRL Hamilton. [pdf] [114kb]

8b. Spiegelhalter et al (2000): A response to Submissions on behalf of Mr J D Wisheart. [pdf] [81KB] See also 4. Spiegelhalter, David  et al

8c. Responses to formal written comments on Overview Report and supplementary statistical reports.

8d. Other comments and responses relating to Statistical Reports

Comments on statistical analysis and review of outcomes of paediatric cardiac surgical services at Bristol and other specialist centres: Mr Jaroslav Stark [pdf] [787KB]

Comments from Dr J Poloniecki [pdf] [54KB], [pdf] [194KB]

Response to Dr J Poloniecki [pdf] [407KB]

Papers from Professor John Yates

    • Examining variation in death rates:a job for the Scientist not the Journalist. [pdf] [523KB]
    • Early identification of poor performance and major performance failure [pdf] [315KB]
    • Analysis of HES Data for Cardio-thoracic work. [pdf] [18KB]
    • A Case Study Exploring the Early Identification of Performance Failure in an Acute Hospital [pdf] [788KB]

Peer review reports on papers submitted by Professor Yates

    • Yates Aylin review [pdf] [28KB]
    • Yates Gallivan review [pdf] [84KB]
    • Yates Macfarlane review [pdf] [31KB]

 


Published by the Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry, July 2001
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