Control chart applications in healthcare: a literature review

G Suman, DR Prajapati - International Journal of Metrology …, 2018 - metrology-journal.org
The concept of Statistical process control (SPC) was given by the physicist Walter Shewhart
in order to improve the industrial manufacturing. The SPC was firstly applied in laboratory …

Statistical process control: separating signal from noise in emergency department operations

L Pimentel, F Barrueto Jr - The Journal of emergency medicine, 2015 - Elsevier
Background Statistical process control (SPC) is a visually appealing and statistically
rigorous methodology very suitable to the analysis of emergency department (ED) …

Transitions between versions of the International Classification of Diseases and chronic disease prevalence estimates from administrative health data: a population …

RA Sanusi, L Yan, AF Hamad, OF Ayilara, V Vasylkiv… - BMC Public Health, 2022 - Springer
Background Diagnosis codes in administrative health data are routinely used to monitor
trends in disease prevalence and incidence. The International Classification of Diseases …

Control charts usage for monitoring performance in surgery: a systematic review

MA Le Thien, Q Cordier, JC Lifante… - Journal of Patient …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Objectives The control chart is a graphical tool for data interpretation that detects aberrant
variations in specific metrics, ideally leading to the identification of special causes that can …

Assessment of the beryllium lymphocyte proliferation test using statistical process control

DJ Cher, DC Deubner, MA Kelsh… - Inhalation …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Despite more than 20 years of surveillance and epidemiologic studies using the beryllium
blood lymphocyte proliferation test (BeBLPT) as a measure of beryllium sensitization (BeS) …

The use of patient mix‐adjusted control charts to compare in‐hospital costs of care

EL Eisenstein, CF Bethea - Health care management science, 1999 - Springer
We introduce a technique for patient mix‐adjusting ̄ x charts and compared differences
between unadjusted and patient mix‐adjusted results. Our data came from coronary artery …

Cervical cancer screening: public health implications for Hong Kong

P Adab - 2002 - etheses.bham.ac.uk
This thesis examines issues related to cervical cancer epidemiology and prevention through
screening, with the aim of informing policy regarding setting up an organised cervical …