{"title":"Quality improvement through root cause analysis.","authors":"C C Handley","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>By preventing the recurrence of errors in service delivery or manufacturing processes, significant improvements in both productivity and quality are assured. By eliminating nonconformance in the system through zero defects and anticipating and preventing errors prior to process implementation, significant cost savings may be realized to positively impact the organization's profit margin. With an understanding of the environment necessary to create quality, organizations will identify solutions to costly, recurring problems.</p>","PeriodicalId":79636,"journal":{"name":"Hospital materiel management quarterly","volume":"21 4","pages":"74-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2000-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Hospital materiel management quarterly","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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By preventing the recurrence of errors in service delivery or manufacturing processes, significant improvements in both productivity and quality are assured. By eliminating nonconformance in the system through zero defects and anticipating and preventing errors prior to process implementation, significant cost savings may be realized to positively impact the organization's profit margin. With an understanding of the environment necessary to create quality, organizations will identify solutions to costly, recurring problems.