A framework for the continual improvement of health care: building and applying professional and improvement knowledge to test changes in daily work

PB Batalden, PK Stoltz - The Joint Commission journal on quality …, 1993 - Elsevier
Article-at-a-Glance Aim of the Framework The aim of the framework described in this article
is to define the new body of knowledge that can be joined with the professional knowledge …

Study designs for PDSA quality improvement research

T Speroff, GT O'Connor - Quality Management in Healthcare, 2004 - journals.lww.com
Objective: The purpose of this article is to discuss strengths and weaknesses of quasi-
experimental designs used in health care quality improvement research. The target groups …

Improving the performance of CUSUM charts

M Riaz, N Abbas, RJMM Does - Quality and Reliability …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The control chart is an important statistical technique that is used to monitor the quality of a
process. Shewhart control charts are used to detect larger disturbances in the process …

Three success factors for continual improvement in healthcare: an analysis of the reports of improvement team members

AS Brandrud, A Schreiner, P Hjortdahl… - BMJ Quality & …, 2011 - qualitysafety.bmj.com
Introduction The objectives of the Breakthrough Series Collaborative are to close the gap
between what we know and what we do, and to contribute to continuous quality …

Understanding variation in reported covid-19 deaths with a novel Shewhart chart application

RJ Perla, SM Provost, GJ Parry, K Little… - … Journal for Quality in …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Objective Motivated by the coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) pandemic, we developed a
novel Shewhart chart to visualize and learn from variation in reported deaths in an epidemic …

[图书][B] The technology management handbook

RC Dorf - 1998 - taylorfrancis.com
If you are not already in a management position, chances are you soon will be. According to
the Bureau of Statistics, the fastest growing areas of employment for engineers are in …

Качество в современной медицине

ВГ Дьяченко - 2007 - elibrary.ru
ВБИ внутрибольничные инфекции ВВП внутренний валовой продукт ВОЗ всемирная
организация здравоохранения ВОП врач общей практики ДВФО Дальневосточный …

Statistical process control for serially correlated data

JE Wieringa - 1999 - research.rug.nl
Abstract Statistical Process Control (SPC) aims at quality improvement through reduction of
variation. The best known tool of SPC is the control chart. Over the years, the control chart …

Achieving Service Quality Through Gap Analysis and a BasicStatistical Approach

DE Headley, B Choi - Journal of Services Marketing, 1992 - emerald.com
Postulates that the use of some key ideas from statistical controlthinking can improve service
quality. Explores the identification andanalysis of gaps in perceptual differences between …

The meaning of variation to healthcare managers, clinical and health-services researchers, and individual patients

D Neuhauser, L Provost, B Bergman - BMJ quality & safety, 2011 - qualitysafety.bmj.com
Healthcare managers, clinical researchers and individual patients (and their physicians)
manage variation differently to achieve different ends. First, managers are primarily …