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The Health Care Data Guide

Learning from Data for Improvement

By: Lloyd P. Provost,Sandra K. Murray

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The Health Care Data Guide

Learning from Data for Improvement

By: Lloyd P. Provost,Sandra K. Murray

An Essential text on transforming raw data into concrete health care improvements Now in its second edition, The Health Care Data Guide: Learning from Data for Improvement delivers a practical blueprint for using available data to improve healthcare outcomes. In the book, a team of distinguished authors explores how health care practitioners, researchers, and other professionals can confidently plan and implement health care enhancements and changes, all while ensuring those changes actually constitute an improvement. This book is the perfect companion resource to The Improvement Guide: A Practical Approach to Enhancing Organizational Peformance, Second Edition, and offers fulsome discussions of how to use data to test, adapt, implement, and scale positive organizational change. The Health Care Data Guide: Learning from Data for Improvement, Second Edition provides: Easy to use strategies for learning more readily from existing health care data Clear guidance on the most useful graph for different types of data used in health care A step-by-step method for making use of highly aggregated data for improvement Examples of using patient-level data in care Multiple methods for making use of patient and other feedback data A vastly better way to view data for executive leadership Solutions for working with rare events data, seasonality and other pesky issues Use of improvement methods with epidemic data Improvement case studies using data for learning A must read resource for those committed to improving health care including allied health professionals in all aspects of health care, physicians, managers, health care leaders, and researchers.

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1119690129

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The Improvement Guide

A Practical Approach to Enhancing Organizational Performance

By: Gerald J. Langley,Ronald D. Moen,Kevin M. Nolan,Thomas W. Nolan,Clifford L. Norman,Lloyd P. Provost

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The Improvement Guide

A Practical Approach to Enhancing Organizational Performance

By: Gerald J. Langley,Ronald D. Moen,Kevin M. Nolan,Thomas W. Nolan,Clifford L. Norman,Lloyd P. Provost

This new edition of this bestselling guide offers an integrated approach to process improvement that delivers quick and substantial results in quality and productivity in diverse settings. The authors explore their Model for Improvement that worked with international improvement efforts at multinational companies as well as in different industries such as healthcare and public agencies. This edition includes new information that shows how to accelerate improvement by spreading changes across multiple sites. The book presents a practical tool kit of ideas, examples, and applications.

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0470549033

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Quality Improvement Through Planned Experimentation

By: Ronald D. Moen,Thomas W. Nolan,Lloyd P. Provost

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Quality Improvement Through Planned Experimentation

By: Ronald D. Moen,Thomas W. Nolan,Lloyd P. Provost

This resource offers a comprehensive framework for the sequential building of knowledge -- a model for improvement -- that is key to making improvements. Step by step, you discover the tools and properties of sound experiments, the methods of planned experiments, and their application to the design of new and improved products and services.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0079137814

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Quality Improvement Through Planned Experimentation 3/E

By: Ronald Moen,Thomas Nolan,Lloyd Provost

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Quality Improvement Through Planned Experimentation 3/E

By: Ronald Moen,Thomas Nolan,Lloyd Provost

The latest experimental design techniques for quality improvement "The methods taught in this book are a major contribution to statistical methods as an aid to engineers, as well as to those in industry, education, or government who are trying to understand the meaning of fi gures derived from comparisons or experiments." -- W. EDWARDS DEMING Co-written by three recipients of the Deming Medal awarded by the American Society for Quality (ASQ), Quality Improvement through Planned Experimentation, Third Edition discusses the principles and methodologies for planning and conducting experiments to improve products, processes, or systems. Fully revised with up-to-date case studies and incorporating new software, this authoritative guide fosters the sequential building of knowledge essential for implementing effective improvements. End-of-chapter exercises reinforce what you've learned, and forms for designing planned experiments help you to integrate the methods in the book into your daily work. The methods of planned experimentation provide an opportunity to better meet the needs of customers, reduce costs, and increase productivity by effecting verifiably beneficial changes. COVERAGE INCLUDES: * Improvement of quality * Principles for design and analysis of planned experiments * Experiments with one factor * Experiments with more than one factor * Reducing the size of experiments * Evaluating sources of variation * Sequential experimentation * Using a time series response variable * Designs with factors at more than two levels * Applications in health care * New product design NEW: Study-it software available for download!

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The Health Care Data Guide

The Health Care Data Guide

The Improvement Guide

The Improvement Guide

Quality Improvement Through Planned Experimentation

Quality Improvement Through Planned Experimentation

Quality Improvement Through Planned Experimentation 3/E

Quality Improvement Through Planned Experimentation 3/E

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