Per Winkel, Nien Fan Zhang

Statistical Development of Quality in Medicine

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The 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.

Statistical Development of Quality in Medicine presents the statistical concepts behind the application of industrial quality control methods. Filled with numerous case studies and worked examples, the text enables the reader to choose the relevant control chart, to critically apply it, improve it if necessary, and monitor its stability. Furthermore, the reader is provided with the necessary background to critically assess the literature on the application of control charts and risk adjustment and to apply the findings.
_ Contains a user-friendly introduction, setting out the necessary statistical concepts used in the field.
_ Uses numerous real-life case studies from the literature and the authors' own research as the backbone of the text.
_ Provides a supplementary website featuring problems and answers drawn from the book, alongside examples in Statgraphics.

The accessible style of Statistical Development of in Clinical Medicine invites a large readership. It is primarily aimed at health care officials, and personnel responsible for developing and controlling the quality of health care services. However, it is also ideal for statisticians working with health care problems, diagnostic and pharmaceutical companies, and graduate students of quality control.

Produktdetails

• Statistics in Practice
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 525g
• ISBN-13: 9780470027776
• ISBN-10: 0470027770
• Artikelnr.: 22579898

Autorenporträt

Per Winkel - Senior researcher at the Copenhagen Trial Unit, Centre for Clinical Intervention Research at the University Hospital of Copenhagen. Professor Winkel has worked in this field for 40 years, with over a decade's teaching experience. He has contributed to several international textbooks, has published a Danish textbook in 2002, and published over 150 papers in international journals. Niew Fan Zhang - Manager of Metrology Statistics and Computation Group, Statistical Engineering Division, US National Institute of Standards and Technology. Dr Zhang has thirty years experience in the field, in both teaching and research. He has published over 50 papers in various international journals, and has won numerous awards for engineering achievements and statistical research.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction - on quality of health care in
general. I.1 Quality of health care. I.2 Measures and indicators of quality
of health care. I.3 The functions of quality measures and indicators.
References. Part I Control Charts. 1 Theory of statistical process control.
1.1 Statistical foundation of control charts. 1.2 Use of control charts.
1.3 Design of control charts. 1.4 Rational samples. 1.5 Analysing the
properties of a control chart. 1.6 Checklists and Pareto charts. 1.7
Clinical applications of control charts. 1.8 Inappropriate changes of a
process. References. 2 Shewhart control charts. 2.1 Control charts for
discrete data. 2.2 Control charts for continuous data. 2.3 Control charts
for variable sample size. References. 3 Time-weighted control charts. 3.1
Shortcomings of Shewhart charts. 3.2 Cumulative sum charts. 3.3
Exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) charts. References. 4 Control
charts for autocorrelated data. 4.1 Time series analysis. 4.2 Tests of
independence of measurements. 4.3 Control charts for autocorrelated data.
4.4 Effect of choice of process standard deviation estimator. References.
Part II Risk Adjustment. 5 Tools for risk adjustment. 5.1 Variables. 5.2
Statistical models. 5.3 Regression on continuous outcome measure. 5.4
Logistic regression on binary data. 5.5 Assessing the quality of a
regression model. References. 6 Risk-adjusted control charts. 6.1 Risk
adjustment. 6.2 Risk-adjusted control charts. 6.3 Comments. References. 7
Risk-adjusted comparison of healthcare providers. 7.1 Experimental
adjustment. 7.2 Statistical risk adjustment of observational data. 7.3
Perils of risk adjusting observational data. 7.4 Public report cards.
References. Part III Learning and Quality Assessment. 8 Learning curves.
8.1 Assessing a single learning curve. 8.2 Assessing multiple learning
curves. 8.3 Factors affecting learning curves. 8.4 Learning curves and
randomised clinical trials. References. 9 Assessing the quality of clinical
processes. 9.1 Data processing requirement. 9.2 Benchmarking of processes
in statistical control. 9.3 Dealing with processes that are not in
statistical control in the same state. 9.4 Overdispersion. 9.5 Multiple
significance testing. References. Appendix A - Basic statistical concepts.
A.1 An example of random sampling. A.2 Data. A.3 Probability distributions.
A.4 Using the data. References. Appendix B - X and S chart with variable
sample size. Appendix C - Moving range estimator of the standard deviation
of an AR (1) process. References. Index.

Rezensionen

"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." ( The American Statistician, November 2008) "I recommend this book to people involved in clinical work who wish to learn about control charts and risk adjustment." ( Biometrics, June 2008) "I have greatly benefited from reading this book and I strongly recommend it for all academic libraries." ( Journal of Applied Statistics, January 2008)