Improving Quality and Patient Safety by Minimizing Unnecessary Variation

Benjamin Jacobs; James R. Duncan

doi:10.1016/j.jvir.2008.10.031

Improving Quality and Patient Safety by Minimizing Unnecessary Variation

Benjamin Jacobs
, James R. Duncan

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	157-163
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology
Volume	20
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvir.2008.10.031
State	Published - Feb 2009

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