Multivariate Six Sigma: A case study in an outpatient pharmaceutical care unit

[EN] Six Sigma strategies for process improvement are widely used in industry and manufactur-ing. The spreading tendency to gather process data about hospital activity is leading to anincrease of process improvement projects in the healthcare context. The complexity of thesedatabases requires upgrad...

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Autores: González-Cebrián, Alba, Hermenegildo, Marta, Climente, Mónica, Ferrer, Alberto|||0000-0001-7244-5947
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/193122
Acesso em linha:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/193122
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Multivariate Six Sigma
Healthcare
Process improvement
PLS
Pharmaceutical care
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Resumo:[EN] Six Sigma strategies for process improvement are widely used in industry and manufactur-ing. The spreading tendency to gather process data about hospital activity is leading to anincrease of process improvement projects in the healthcare context. The complexity of thesedatabases requires upgrading the classical statistical Six Sigma toolkit. In this paper we pre-sent a Six Sigma project carried out in an Outpatient Pharmaceutical Care Unit at HospitalUniversitario Doctor Peset in Valencia (Spain), where we illustrate the benefits of usinglatent variables-based models, specifically Partial Least Squares Regression (PLS), integratingthem into the DMAIC phases of the project.