Improving the hospital discharge process with six sigma methods

Quality Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-20

  Allen, Theodore T ^a   Tseng, Shih Hsien ^a   Swanson, Kerry ^b   McClay, Mary Ann ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b President of St Mary's Janesville Hospital   (United States)

^c Sagata Ltd   (United States)

Author keywords

Cause and effect matrices; Control charting; Individuals charts; Lean sigma; Moving range; Pareto charts

Indexed keywords

CHART DATA; CONTROL CHARTING; DEFINE , MEASURE , ANALYZE , IMPROVE , AND CONTROLS; DISCHARGE TIME; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; MOVING RANGE; PARETO CHARTS; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PROCESS MAPPING; SIX SIGMA; SIX SIGMA METHODS;

GRAPHIC METHODS; HOSPITALS; PARETO PRINCIPLE; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 77951238122     PISSN: 08982112     EISSN: 15324222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08982110903344812     Document Type: Article

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