Personal quality improvement and individualized health process control: an update.
Chronic disease management is about personal quality improvement. This involves tracking personal health measures over time to develop the patient's understanding of common and special cause variation. This can be done through the use of run, control, and time between charts. This review gives examples of different methods taken from the literature.
Neuhauser
Duncan
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Epidemiology & Biostatistics Department, Medical School, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA. dvn@case.edu
D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000628:therapy*; D019468:Disease Management; D006801:Humans; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D012648:Self Care / Q000592:standards*