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The Clinical Indicators Support Team have produced a SPC chart package and tutorial
Introduction
Collecting data from healthcare processes is what we routinely do in the NHS. The analysis of these data, which are usually continuous or discrete, can provide great insight into the behaviour of these processes.
Statistical Process Control (SPC) techniques, when applied to measurement data, can be used as a basis for quality improvement in healthcare processes in much the same way as they have been effectively applied to manufacturing processes to bring about improvement. Two of the simplest SPC techniques to implement are the run chart and the control chart. The purpose of these techniques is to identify when the process is displaying strange or unusual behaviour. Formally, the purpose of the run chart and the control chart is to distinguish between two sorts of variation that a process can exhibit, namely common cause variation and special cause variation.
Statistical Process Control Excel Package and Tutorial Guide |
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SPC Chart Tool will only work in Excel versions
98 or later. |
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Please note The security level in your version of Excel must be set to medium for the drop-down menus to work. |
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Contacts SPC Tool
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2005 Clinical Indicators 
2004 'A Focus on children' 
SPC pdf tutorial guide 
SPC Chart Package