Abstract

Statistical Process Control (SPC) methods based on control charts have been used for more than 90 years, particularly in the area of Industrial Quality Control. However, transferring SPC tools to health care, it took a long time. During last two decades SPC tools are increasingly applied to monitor the health care section. There is also ample of research opportunities in the area of health care improvement for SPC tools. In this paper we shall try to highlight briefly, the works done by the scholars of QC and health care practitioners who used various SPC tools like magnificent seven tools, variable and attribute charts, advanced control charts like CUSUM , EWMA, MCUSUM, MEWMA, Sample Generalized Variance Charts, Six-Sigma methods in a systematic manner. The
sensitivity of SPC tools are discussed with data dealing with health care statistics.

Author: H. Narayan Dutta and A. Goswami

Received on: July, 2011

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