Performance monitoring in interventional cardiology: Application of statistical process control to a single-site database

EuroIntervention

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 955-962

  Smith, Ian R ^a,b   Rivers, John T ^a,c   Mengersen, Kerrie L ^b   Cameron, James ^a,c  

^a ST ANDREW S WAR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c Queensland Cardiovascular Group   (Australia)

Author keywords

Angioplasty; Control charts; Percutaneous coronary; Performance monitoring; Quality assurance; Sequential testing; Transluminal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PROCESS CONTROL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954455693     PISSN: 1774024X     EISSN: 19696213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4244/EIJV6I8A166     Document Type: Article

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