Abstract:
:The p chart is widely used in health care and other service organizations as well as in manufacturing to monitor the proportion of observations with some particular characteristic for comparing several sources of data or for tracking a single source of data over time. The conventional approach is to use 3sigma limits found by using the normal approximation to the binomial distribution. This article reviews a method for taking into account the fact that 3sigma limits are not always appropriate, and suggests the use of the exact binomial distribution instead of the normal approximation to eliminate the problems associated with small subgroups. An example with only 4 small subgroups shows that the use of probability control limits and of modified control limits avoids the above problems.
journal_name
Qual Manag Health Carejournal_title
Quality management in health careauthors
Hart MK,Hart RF,Schmaltz Sdoi
10.1097/01.QMH.0000267449.32629.b1subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2007-04-01 00:00:00pages
123-9issue
2eissn
1063-8628issn
1550-5154pii
00019514-200704000-00004journal_volume
16pub_type
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