Fig. 2.
Dotplot for January 2013 through June 2013 for the blood pressure metric for three age groups. Data from January 2013 through June 2013 for the blood pressure metric are presented in figure 2 for each age group from SAS Enterprise Miner (SAS Institute, Inc., USA; fig. 1). Only those anesthesiologists with 25 or more anesthetics in the 6-month period for each age group were plotted. Therefore, even though there were 57 anesthesiologists studied in this period, the number of dots in A and B would be less than 57. The incidences of noncompliance were 19.96% for the youngest age group (A) and 2.13% for those patients in the oldest age group (C) in this period. The figure shows that the incidences of not checking (or recording) blood pressure before induction were substantial for the two Bayesian outlier anesthesiologists without risk adjustment (green triangle), especially for the middle and oldest age groups. The figure shows also that neither of the two anesthesiologists who was a Bayesian outlier with covariate adjustment (red squares) shows up on A nor on B, indicating that these anesthesiologists performed less than 25 anesthetics for these age groups during the 6-month period. Adj = adjusted; Unadj = unadjusted.