Quality Improvement Tools in Disease Management

Basic Quality Tools in Continuous Improvement Process

If organizations wish to achieve continuous quality improvement they need to use appropriate selection of quality tools and techniques. In this paper a review of possibilities of the systematic use of seven basic quality tools (7QC tools) is presented. It is shown that 7QC tools can be used in all process phases, from the beginning of a product development up to management of a production proce...

innovar impact of quality improvement tools on the performance of firms using different quality management systems

this study compares the impact of quality management tools on the performance of organisations utilising the iso 9001:2000 standard as a basis for a quality-management system and those utilising the eFQm model for this purpose. a survey is conducted among 107 experienced and independent quality-management assessors. the study finds that organisations with qualitymanagement systems based on the ...

Quality Improvement through Quality Requirements Management

not taken into account properly [13]. In fact, there As the degree of compliance of quality requirements mainly induces the acceptance and success of a system, special emphasis should be laid on the elicitation, specification and validation of quality requirements. Current requirements definition methods, however, mainly focus on objects, functions, and states. This paper emphasizes quality req...

Section VI: Tools for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Chapter 44. Tools and Strategies for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety

Quantitative data management in quality improvement collaboratives

BACKGROUND Collaborative approaches in quality improvement have been promoted since the introduction of the Breakthrough method. The effectiveness of this method is inconclusive and further independent evaluation of the method has been called for. For any evaluation to succeed, data collection on interventions performed within the collaborative and outcomes of those interventions is crucial. Ge...