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Controlling Variation in Health Care: A Consultation from Walter Shewhart (DONALD M. BERWICK, MD, MPP)

The control of unintended variation is an objective central to modern industrial quality management methods, based largely on the theoretical work of Walter A. Shewhart. As industrial quality management techniques find their place in health care, professionals may feel threatened by the effort to reduce variation. Understanding may reduce this fear.

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