The six sigma book for healthcare : improving outcomes by reducing errors / Robert Barry, Amy Murcko, Clifford Brubaker.
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- 0585426430
- 9780585426433
- 156793191X
- 9781567931914
- Medical errors -- Prevention
- Six sigma (Quality control standard)
- Health facilities -- Risk management
- Quality control
- Health facilities
- Total quality management
- Risk
- National health services
- Technology
- Organization
- Medical care -- Quality control
- Causation
- Probabilities
- Medical care
- Health services administration
- Statistics
- Public health
- Health Facilities
- Risk Factors
- Total Quality Management
- Quality Control
- Medical Errors
- Risk
- Health Services
- Technology
- Organization and Administration
- Quality Assurance, Health Care
- Causality
- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services
- Quality of Health Care
- Probability
- Epidemiologic Factors
- Technology, Industry, and Agriculture
- Delivery of Health Care
- Health Services Administration
- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation
- Statistics as Topic
- Public Health
- Technology, Industry, Agriculture
- Epidemiologic Methods
- Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms
- Environment and Public Health
- Investigative Techniques
- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
- State Medicine
- Patient Care Management -- methods
- Patient Care Management
- Six Sigma
- Équipements sanitaires -- Gestion du risque
- Qualité -- Contrôle
- Équipements sanitaires
- Qualité totale
- Risque
- Services de santé
- Technologie
- Organisation
- Soins médicaux -- Qualité -- Contrôle
- Causalité
- Probabilités
- Prestation de soins
- Services de santé -- Administration
- Statistiques
- Santé publique
- quality control
- health facilities
- probability
- public health
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues
- MEDICAL -- Public Health
- MEDICAL -- Health Policy
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General
- MEDICAL -- Diseases
- MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery
- Health facilities -- Risk management
- Medical errors -- Prevention
- Quality control
- Six sigma (Quality control standard)
- Medical Professional Practice
- Medicine
- Health & Biological Sciences
- 362.1 21
- R729.8 .B37 2002eb
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"American Society for Quality, Quality Press"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-226).
Six Sigma: Why, What, How? -- Error Prevention -- Poka-Yoke -- Topics in Healthcare Error Prevention -- Workflow -- Problem Solving -- Events -- Digging In -- Compare and Contrast -- Diagrammatic Tools -- Management Action -- Problem Detection -- Six Sigma Measures -- Six Sigma Operations Analysis -- Quantitative Process Analysis -- Change Management -- Selecting Changes -- Data Portrayal -- Process Tracking -- Performance Evaluation -- Potential Problem Analysis -- Yield -- Test Reliability -- Time-Value Charts -- The Poisson Distribution -- Incomplete Trials -- Failure Modes and Effects -- Discrete Analysis -- Central Limit Theorem -- Data Sampling -- Rule-Based Sampling -- Rich Data Sets -- Sequential Analysis -- Rule-Induced Upsets -- Improvement Project -- Event A -- Event B -- Workflow Cases -- Selected Formulae -- Effect of Precision in Low-Count Estimating -- Effect of Ignoring Multiple Errors in Estimating Yield -- Effect of Ignoring Negative Values in Distributions -- Adjusting the Normal Distribution for Positive-Only Populations -- Using the Normal Distribution in Place of the Poisson Distribution.
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Annotation Consultant Barry; Amy C. Murcko, a manager and researcher at a Pennsylvania regional health care system; and Clifford E. Brubaker (health and rehabilitation sciences, U. of Pittsburgh) explains how to apply the Six Sigma management system, developed for high-technology manufacturing, to health care organizations. The target of the error- reducing effort is 3.4 errors per million error opportunities. There is no index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
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