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CUSUM analysis of mortality following esophagectomy to allow for identification and intervention of quality problems.

Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (NCRT) compared with chemotherapy (NCT) in locally advanced squamous-cell cancer of the esophagus. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2017 Gastrointestinal Cancers ...
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Surgical margins and biochemical recurrence risk at 2 years for robotic prostatectomy: Comprehensive evaluation and CUSUM analysis of oncological outcomes.

Quality of life (QOL) and acute toxicities of a pilot study of focal salvage high-dose rate (HDR) prostate brachytherapy in patients with local recurrence after definitive external-beam radiotherapy ...
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Average Run Lengths for CUSUM Schemes When Observations Are Exponentially Distributed

Page (1954) originally noted that it is possible to find an integral equation whose solution gives average run lengths for one-sided CUSUM schemes. Lucas and Crosier (1982), for the case of normally ...
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Controlling the Standard Deviation by Cusums and Warning Lines

The usual process inspection scheme for controlling the standard deviation (S. D.) of a normal distribution is to plot a Shewhart chart on which are recorded the ranges of small samples; a common size ...
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Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy for Breast Cancer Using Methylene Blue Dye Manifests A Short Learning Curve Among Experienced Surgeons

Background: The benefits of sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) for breast cancer patients with histologically negative axillary nodes, in whom axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) is thereby avoided, ...