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Statistical Process Control as a Tool for Research and Healthcare Improvement

Improvement of health care requires making changes in processes of care and service delivery. Although process performance is measured to determine if these changes are having the desired beneficial effects, this analysis is complicated by the existence of natural variation—that is, repeated measurements naturally yield different values and, even if nothing was done, a subsequent measurement might seem to indicate a better or worse performance.

J C Benneyan, R C Lloyd, P E Plsek

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