A Literature Review on Control Chart Development in Healthcare Monitoring

This paper presents a review on the ideas behind a control chart development for medical treatment monitoring in hospital. A description and analysis on various concepts underlying the tool construction are extracted and analyzed based on several scientific journals found in their publisher database as well as explorations using some scientific publication searching machines. The exploration and filtering process on the scientific articles results in 43 works that become a final set to obtain information related to the research issue. There are 7 problem areas that are presented to explain the monitoring problem in healthcare services which contain differences on patient conditions (10 papers), data shortage (4 papers), multi-indicator monitoring (4 papers), monitoring sensitivity (28 papers), tool practicality (8 papers), improvement-type shifting detection (3 papers), and model assumption violations (6 papers). Based on the this knowledge, some basic directions on control chart development in medical treatment monitoring is constructed. These directions are divided into three categories that deal with the nature of medical condition, control chart technical properties, and the supporting factor in control chart application.