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You are here > Home > Reading Lists > Performance Improvement, Outcomes & Customer Service > Improving Health Care with Control Charts

Improving Healthcare with Control Charts: Basic and Advanced SPC Methods and Case Studies
Raymond G. Carey, Larry V. Stake

Hardcover: 297 pages
ISBN 0873895622
978-0873895620
ASQ Quality Press
January 2003
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Do you feel you are drowning in a sea of data and wondering how you can learn from all of this information?

While measuring quality efforts in healthcare is essential to the overall performance of any healthcare organization, it is also very complex, leaving many feeling overwhelmed and with a lot of unanswered questions:

  • What are SPC methods and can they really help to improve healthcare?

  • How can control charts be used to monitor key processes and outcomes?

  • How can physicians use control charts to improve their clinical practice?

In his latest book, Dr. Raymond Carey answers these questions and more as he helps to explain the need for, and the use of, SPC in healthcare. In Improving Healthcare with Control Charts: Basic and Advanced SPC Methods and Case Studies, Carey expands on his previous best-selling book, Measuring Quality Improvement in Healthcare, by providing more in-depth information on problems commonly experienced in constructing and analyzing control charts. He outlines specific SPC concepts, theories, and methods that will help improve measurement and therefore improve overall performance. Carey also presents many new case studies applying advanced methods and theory to real life healthcare situations. This book fully covers:

  • Basic SPC Concepts and the Run Chart

  • Control Chart Theory Simplified

  • Drilling Down into Aggregate Data

  • Issues with Control Charts

  • Limitations of Attribute Charts

  • Obtaining Meaningful Data

  • Using Patient Feedback for Quality Improvement

  • Governance and Monitoring Quality

  • Six Sigma

  • Using Control

Many healthcare organizations are seeing tremendous benefits from using control charts and SPC methods to improve performance and monitor key processes. But many have unanswered questions on how to best utilize these practices.

In Improving Healthcare with Control Charts: Basic and Advanced SPC Methods and Case Studies, Dr. Raymond Carey addresses these questions and helps to explain the need for, and the use of, SPC in healthcare. Carey expands on the previous best-selling book, Measuring Quality Improvement in Healthcare, by providing more in-depth information on problems commonly experienced in constructing and analyzing control charts. He also presents many new case studies applying advanced methods and theory to real life healthcare situations.

The American Society for Quality (ASQ), headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, is the world’s leading authority on quality since 1946. The 104,000-member professional association creates better workplaces and communities worldwide by advancing learning, quality improvement, and knowledge exchange to improve business results. By making quality a global priority, an organizational imperative, and a personal ethic, ASQ becomes the community for everyone who seeks technology, concepts, or tools to improve themselves and their world.

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