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 …

Background Access to healthcare is a poorly defined construct, with insufficient
understanding of differences in facilitators and barriers between US urban versus rural …

This article is the first in a two-part series discussing and illustrating the application of
statistical process control (SPC) to processes often examined by hospital epidemiologists …

In some production processes and administrative processes, the occurrence of certain
events is best described by a geometric distribution. Control charts are developed for the …

Lipid based drug delivery systems, and in particular self-emulsifying drug delivery systems
(SEDDS), show great potential for enhancing oral bioavailability but have not been broadly …

Abstract The Institute of Medicine recently called for increased understanding of and
commitment to timely care. Lung cancer can be difficult to diagnose, resulting in delays that …

ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE 2012; 19: 1045–1054© 2012 by the Society for
Academic Emergency Medicine Abstract Objectives: The objectives were to evaluate three …

This is the second in a two-part series discussing and illustrating the application of statistical
process control (SPC) in hospital epidemiology. The basic philosophical and theoretical …

Originally developed at Bell Laboratories by Dr Walter Shewhart [1] in 1924 specifically to
help detect statistical changes in process quality, control charts have since become one of …

Alternate Shewhart-type statistical control charts, called “g” and “h” charts, are developed
and evaluated for monitoring the number of cases between hospital-acquired infections and …