Control charts in healthcare quality improvement: A systematic review on adherence to methodological criteria

Methods of Information in Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 189-198

  Koetsier, A ^a   van der Veer, S N ^a   Jager, K J ^a   Peek, N ^a   Keizer, N F ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Healthcare quality improvement; Process assessment (health care); Quality improvement methodologies; Statistical process control

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; REVIEW; RISK; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; HUMANS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RISK;

EID: 84861325602     PISSN: 00261270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3414/ME11-01-0055     Document Type: Article

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