title: Use of a control chart to monitor diarrhoea admissions: a quality improvement exercise in West Kalimantan Provincial Hospital, Pontianak, Indonesia.
abstract: Data on the number of admissions for diarrhoea each week to the West Kalimantan Provincial Hospital, Pontianak, Indonesia over a 5 year period, 1992-1996, were collected. After cleaning and exclusion of extreme values, transformation was then performed to ensure that the data were free of special cause variation and normally distributed. A control chart was then constructed to provide an 'early warning' system for hospital authorities in order to facilitate the management of the epidemic and to improve patient care.
authors.affiliation: Jalan Gatot Subroto, Kalimantan Barat, Indonesia.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Purba
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005568:Forms and Records Control; D006801:Humans; D007214:Indonesia / Q000453:epidemiology; D008499:Medical Records; D010343:Patient Admission / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012189:Retrospective Studies