Provost / Murray The Health Care Data Guide

Learning from Data for Improvement
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-118-08611-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 480 Seiten, E-Book

The Health Care Data Guide is designed to help students andprofessionals build a skill set specific to using data forimprovement of health care processes and systems. Even experienceddata users will find valuable resources among the tools and casesthat enrich The Health Care Data Guide. Practical and step-by-step,this book spotlights statistical process control (SPC) and developsa philosophy, a strategy, and a set of methods for ongoingimprovement to yield better outcomes.
Provost and Murray reveal how to put SPC into practice for awide range of applications including evaluating current processperformance, searching for ideas for and determining evidence ofimprovement, and tracking and documenting sustainability ofimprovement. A comprehensive overview of graphical methods in SPCincludes Shewhart charts, run charts, frequency plots, Paretoanalysis, and scatter diagrams. Other topics include stratificationand rational sub-grouping of data and methods to help predictperformance of processes.
Illustrative examples and case studies encourage users toevaluate their knowledge and skills interactively and provideopportunity to develop additional skills and confidence indisplaying and interpreting data.
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Provost, Lloyd P.

Murray, Sandra

Murray, Sandra K.

Über Autor(innen)

Lloyd P. Provost is a cofounder of Associates in Process Improvement, the developers of the Model for Improvement roadmap and the Quality as a Business Strategy template for focusing organizations on improvement. Lloyd is a senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, where he supports the use of data for learning in programs.
Sandra K. Murray is a principal in Corporate Transformation Concepts, an independent consulting firm. She is faculty for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's year-long Improvement Advisor Professional Development Program and their Breakthrough Series College. Sandra has taught numerous programs through the National Association for Healthcare Quality. Her active cohort of client organizations encompasses the spectrum of health care delivery.