The health care data guide

By Lloyd P. Provost

Subjects: Ra399.a3 p766 2011, Quality assurance, Process Assessment (Health Care), Medical care, quality control, Medical care--quality control--statistical methods, Total quality management, Methods, Statistical methods, Statistical Data Interpretation, Medical care, Quality control, 362.10727, Quality control, statistical methods, Health Care Quality Assurance, Data processing, Medical care--quality control--data processing, Total Quality Management

Description: "Step by step this comprehensive resource explores the statistical process control (SPC), a philosophy, a strategy, and a set of methods for ongoing improvement of processes and systems to yield better outcomes in health care organizations. It includes information on processes, stratification, rational subgrouping and stability and capability analysis, measurement, data collection methods, planned experimentation, and graphical methods. This book shows how to apply SPC to evaluate current process performance, search for ideas for improvement, tell if changes have resulted in evidence of improvement, and track implementation efforts to document sustainability of the improvement"--Provided by publisher.