{"product_id":"statistical-development-of-quality-in-medicine-9780470027776","title":"Statistical Development of Quality in Medicine","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe promotion of standards and guidelines to advance quality assurance and control is an integral part of the health care sector. Quantitative methods are needed to monitor, control and improve the quality of medical processes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The book is a good resource to have on your desk. I hope that future editions will incorporate some of the previously mentioned constructive suggestions, since the book has the potential to serve as an excellent reference for researchers and practioners in the health sciences.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe American Statistician\u003c\/i\u003e, November 2008)  \u003cp\u003e\"The book is a good resource to have on your desk.  I hope that future editions will incorporate some of the previously mentioned constructive suggestions, since the book has the potential to serve as an excellent reference for researchers and practioners in the health sciences.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe American Statistician,\u003c\/i\u003e November 2008)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I recommend this book to people involved in clinical work who wish to learn about control charts and risk adjustment.\" (\u003ci\u003eBiometrics,\u003c\/i\u003e June 2008)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I have greatly benefited from reading this book and I strongly recommend it for all academic libraries.\" (\u003ci\u003eJournal of Applied Statistics,\u003c\/i\u003e January 2008)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface.  \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction – on quality of health care in general.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI.1 Quality of health care.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI.2 Measures and indicators of quality of health care.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI.3 The functions of quality measures and indicators.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Control Charts.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Theory of statistical process control.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.1 Statistical foundation of control charts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.2 Use of control charts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.3 Design of control charts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.4 Rational samples.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.5 Analysing the properties of a control chart.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.6 Checklists and Pareto charts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.7 Clinical applications of control charts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.8 Inappropriate changes of a process.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Shewhart control charts.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1 Control charts for discrete data.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2 Control charts for continuous data.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3 Control charts for variable sample size.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Time-weighted control charts.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1 Shortcomings of Shewhart charts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2 Cumulative sum charts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3 Exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) charts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Control charts for autocorrelated data.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1 Time series analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2 Tests of independence of measurements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3 Control charts for autocorrelated data.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.4 Effect of choice of process standard deviation estimator.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Risk Adjustment.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Tools for risk adjustment.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.1 Variables.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2 Statistical models.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3 Regression on continuous outcome measure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4 Logistic regression on binary data.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.5 Assessing the quality of a regression model.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Risk-adjusted control charts.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.1 Risk adjustment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2 Risk-adjusted control charts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.3 Comments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Risk-adjusted comparison of healthcare providers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.1 Experimental adjustment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2 Statistical risk adjustment of observational data.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.3 Perils of risk adjusting observational data.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.4 Public report cards.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Learning and Quality Assessment.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Learning curves.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.1 Assessing a single learning curve.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2 Assessing multiple learning curves.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3 Factors affecting learning curves.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.4 Learning curves and randomised clinical trials.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Assessing the quality of clinical processes.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.1 Data processing requirement.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.2 Benchmarking of processes in statistical control.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.3 Dealing with processes that are not in statistical control in the same state.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.4 Overdispersion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.5 Multiple significance testing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAppendix A – Basic statistical concepts.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA.1 An example of random sampling.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA.2 Data.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA.3 Probability distributions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA.4 Using the data.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAppendix B – X and S chart with variable sample size.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAppendix C – Moving range estimator of the standard deviation of an AR (1) process.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley \u0026 Sons Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49525362196823,"sku":"9780470027776","price":73.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/statistical-development-of-quality-in-medicine-9780470027776","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}