Human Body Function Control Charts for the Physician
Authors: Steven M. Zimmerman, Ph.D., Professor of Quality and Systems Management University of South Alabama Published:1990-ASQC Quality Congress Transactions-San Francisco
Lonnie D. Brown, University of South Alabama Medical Center, Mobile, AL
Shannon Brown, University of South Alabama Medical Center, Mobile, AL
Leroy Alexander, MD, Departmart of Anesthesiology, University of South Alabama Medical Center, Mobile, AL
Significance:
Current medical practice is to use the raw data for decision making. Medical devices display the data, a few devices display graphs of the raw data. This paper demostrates that human body data streams may be analyzed and displayed as Shewhart process control charts (averages and standard deviations).
The human body is process that can be monitored using control charts. Microcomputers have evolved to the sophistication level that data from medical equipment can be collected and displayed as control charts. The physicians now has the ability to to have vital sign data enhanced and displayed as BiomedQC charts.
