Basics of health care performance improvement : a lean Six Sigma approach /

Lighter, Donald E.

Basics of health care performance improvement : a lean Six Sigma approach / Donald E. Lighter. - Burlington, MA : Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2013. - x, 339 pages. : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Rev. ed. of: Quality management in health care / Donald E. Lighter and Douglas C. Fair. c2004

Includes bibliographical references, glossary and index.

Why is performance improvement the 'big new thing'? -- Define phase tools -- Measure phase tools -- Analyze phase tools -- Improve phase tools -- Control phase tools -- LSS case studies in health care -- DMAIC in an era of reform

Education

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Medical care--quality control
Six sigma (Quality control standard)
Quality Assurance, Health Care--organization & administration--United States
Quality Assurance, Health Care--methods--United States
Quality Indicators, Health Care--organization & administration--United States
Total Quality Management--methods--United States

RA 399.A1 / .L626 2013

362.1068

2012 A-474 W 84.4 AA1