Continuous Quality Improvement: Charts (Part 4 of 8) — The Run Chart

Welcome to the topic of continuous quality improvement (CQI)! CQI: Charts is a video course that describes a variety of charts that are useful for measuring and analyzing performance to continuously improve quality. This video lesson, The Run Chart, is the fourth of eight. This video lesson focuses specifically on run charts and defines run charts, as well as runs. In addition, it explains how to collect data and how to analyze run charts to find meaningful patterns. Viewers will learn some rules for achieving a 95 percent confidence level that changes are non-random and will learn the roles of trends and outliers in run charts.