TY - JOUR
T1 - Improving Quality and Patient Safety by Minimizing Unnecessary Variation
AU - Jacobs, Benjamin
AU - Duncan, James R.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) Foundation, Barnes Jewish Hospital Foundation (St. Louis, Missouri), and Siemens Medical Systems (Erlangen, Germany). Neither of the authors has identified a conflict of interest.
PY - 2009/2
Y1 - 2009/2
N2 - Quality and safety in health care have proven difficult to precisely define and measure. In other fields, quality is defined as the absence of unnecessary variation and process improvement efforts are gauged by their ability to reduce variation. This article explores how this definition can be applied to various attributes of image-guided procedures.
AB - Quality and safety in health care have proven difficult to precisely define and measure. In other fields, quality is defined as the absence of unnecessary variation and process improvement efforts are gauged by their ability to reduce variation. This article explores how this definition can be applied to various attributes of image-guided procedures.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jvir.2008.10.031
DO - 10.1016/j.jvir.2008.10.031
M3 - Comment/debate
C2 - 19097809
AN - SCOPUS:58249143752
SN - 1051-0443
VL - 20
SP - 157
EP - 163
JO - Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology
JF - Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology
IS - 2
ER -