As a current or future health care administration leader, you will likely engage in creating and presenting attribute control charts for your health services organization. As you have examined in this course, the use of attribute control charts will depen
Problem07-03
| Chapter 7 - Statistical Process Control for Monitoring Failure Rates | |||
| Problem 7.3 - Semmelweis | |||
| Month | Births | Deaths | Rate |
| Jan 1846 | 336 | 45 | 13.4 |
| Feb | 293 | 53 | 18.1 |
| March | 311 | 48 | 15.4 |
| April | 253 | 48 | 19.0 |
| May | 305 | 41 | 13.4 |
| June | 266 | 27 | 10.2 |
| July | 252 | 33 | 13.1 |
| August | 216 | 39 | 18.1 |
| September | 271 | 39 | 14.4 |
| October | 254 | 38 | 15.0 |
| November | 297 | 32 | 10.8 |
| December | 298 | 16 | 5.4 |
| Jan 1847 | 311 | 10 | 3.2 |
| Feb | 312 | 6 | 1.9 |
| March | 305 | 11 | 3.6 |
| April | 312 | 57 | 18.3 |
| May | 294 | 36 | 12.2 |
| June** | 268 | 6 | 2.4 |
| July | 250 | 3 | 1.2 |
| August | 264 | 5 | 1.9 |
| September | 262 | 12 | 5.2 |
| October | 278 | 11 | 4.0 |
| November | 246 | 11 | 4.5 |
| December | 273 | 8 | 2.9 |
| Jan 1848 | 283 | 10 | 3.5 |
| Feb | 291 | 2 | 0.7 |
| March | 276 | 0 | 0.0 |
| April | 305 | 2 | 0.7 |
| May | 313 | 3 | 1.0 |
| June | 264 | 3 | 1.1 |
| July | 269 | 1 | 0.4 |
| August | 261 | 0 | 0.0 |
| September | 312 | 3 | 1.0 |
| October | 299 | 7 | 2.3 |
| November | 310 | 9 | 2.9 |
| December | 373 | 5 | 1.3 |
| Source: Semmelweis I, 1983, The Etiology, Concept, and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever, The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison WI (originally published 1860) pp. 85, 90-91. |
Problem07-04
| Chapter 7 - Statistical Process Control for Monitoring Failure Rates | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Patient | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Problem07-05
| Chapter 7 - Statistical Process Control for Monitoring Failure Rates | ||
| Problem 7.5 - Readmission Rates | ||
| Month | Readmits | Sample |
| Jan | 3 | 10 |
| Feb | 3 | 10 |
| Mar | 4 | 10 |
| Apr | 3 | 8 |
| May | 3 | 10 |
| Jun | 3 | 9 |
| Jul | 3 | 10 |
| Aug | 3 | 9 |
| Sep | 3 | 9 |
| Oct | 3 | 10 |
| Nov | 3 | 9 |
| Dec | 2 | 10 |
| Jan | 3 | 10 |
| Feb | 2 | 8 |
| Mar | 3 | 10 |
| Apr | 2 | 9 |
| May | 3 | 10 |
| Jun | 2 | 9 |
| Jul | 3 | 10 |
| Aug | 3 | 10 |
| Sep | 2 | 10 |
| Oct | 2 | 10 |
| Nov | 2 | 8 |
| Dec | 2 | 9 |