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The six sigma book for healthcare : improving outcomes by reducing errors / Robert Barry, Amy Murcko, Clifford Brubaker.

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Main Author: Barry, Robert
Other Authors: Murcko, Amy, Brubaker, Cliff
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : Health Administration Press, ©2002.
Series:Management series (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
Subjects:
Medical errors > Prevention.
Six sigma (Quality control standard)
Health facilities > Risk management.
Quality control.
Table of Contents:
  • 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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