What was that aha moment when you realized you needed to address clinical variation? Steven Goldstein, CEO of Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, N.Y., said it wasn’t so much an “ aha moment” but a ...

Variation in the cost, quality, and intensity of clinical services remains a challenge for health system performance in the United States. Despite increased awareness over its scope and implication, ...

A central part of quality management involves tracking, identifying and managing changes that occur in a system or process; these are variations. When changes are planned and executed well, the ...

Population structure, in terms of the body mass, condition, sex and reproductive status of individuals, has been found to vary in phase with population density in cyclic populations of microtine ...