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		NHS Cancer Waiting-Time Analysis, Benchmarking and Multilevel
		Modelling // Provides tools for importing, harmonising,
		cleaning, analysing, benchmarking and visualising National
		Health Service (NHS) England Cancer Waiting Times data. The
		package supports national performance monitoring, provider-
		level benchmarking and cancer pathway comparisons through key
		performance indicator summaries, provider filtering, clustering
		analyses, mixed-effects regression models, variance
		decomposition, intraclass correlation coefficient estimation,
		adjusted provider performance estimation and sensitivity
		analyses. Functions are included for exploratory analysis,
		publication-ready visualisations and spreadsheet exports,
		supporting reproducible health services research, cancer
		services evaluation, quality improvement and assessment of
		waiting-time performance across healthcare organisations.
		Mixed-effects modelling functionality is based on Bates et al.
		(2015) doi:10.18637/jss.v067.i01. Multilevel modelling concepts
		and variance decomposition follow Gelman and Hill (2007,
		ISBN:9780521686891). Cancer Waiting Times definitions and
		reporting standards follow NHS England
		https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-
		areas/cancer-waiting-times/.
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