Statit Quality Practice Tips for Healthcare

• A Grand Idea
• Can Problems Lurk in Charts Without Control Violations?
• Central Limit Theorem
• Commonly Used Graphs Versus Control Charts
• Comparing Performance of Individuals
• Control Charts for Skewed Data
• Control Charts for Skewed Time-Based Data
• Cpk vs. Ppk
• Criteria for Lack of Control
• Cumulative Sum Charts vs. U-Type Attribute Charts
• Designing Spreadsheets for Data Import
• Detecting an Improper Sampling Technique
• Discussions on Normality
• Effective Use of Control Charts
• Estimating Standard Deviation
• Histogram with Two or More Peaks
• The Interrupted Run Chart for Monitoring Blood Pressure Measurements
• Non-Normal Effects on Cpk
• Normal Probability Plot Interpretation
• Normal vs. Non-normal Distributed Data—Comparing Results
• Probability Plot Use in QC
• Profiling: Comparisons Using Xbar & s Charts
• Quality Reporting Challenges
• Rare Events in Healthcare
• Shewhart Control Charts for Healthcare with Other than 3-Sigma Limits
• The Shewhart p Chart for Comparisons
• Spiderman and the Paynter
• Summarized Data: Choosing Appropriate Charts
• The t Test
• Testing for "Near-Normality": The Probability Plot
• Transformation of Skewed Data Distribution in Health Care
• Turning SPC Charts into Confidence Interval Charts
• u Charts, p Charts and i Charts for Healthcare
• Use of Time Data
• Using an Xbar & S Chart to Compare Samples from Different Applications
• Using Other than Three Sigma Limits on a Control Chart
• What Charts to Show?
• What is the Difference Between a Percentage and a Rate?
• The Xbar and s Chart with an Arbitrary Number of Subgroups and Varying Subgroup Sizes