2005 Quality and Productivity Research Conference Presentations

 

Wednesday, May 18th

Averback, Beth - Pay for Performance in a Physician Group

Carlson, Richard - Key Measures: The Evolution of a Balanced Scorecard for a Medical Group

Li, Lexin - Dimension Reduction Methods for Microarray Censured Survival Data

Ma, Shuangge - Regularized ROC Estimation: With Applications to Disease Classification Using Microarray Data

Nachtsheim, Chris - Conference Welcome and Overview

O'Connor, Patrick - Future Directions for Measurement

Su, Xiaogang - Optimal Tree/MLE-based Methods in Data Mining

Thorpe, Kenneth - Healthcare Tranformation

Wan, Thomas T.H. - An Autoregressive Latent Trajectory Model of Resident Outcome Improvement in Nursing Homes

Yin, Xiangrong - Dimension Reduction Without a Model via Modeling Methods

 

Thursday, May 19th

Benneyan, Jim - Risk-Adjusted Control Charts for Non-Homogeneous Dichotomous Events

Elton, David - Enhancing Affordability and Quality through Data Sharing

Mandal, Abhyuday - Sequential Elimination of Level Combinations by Means of Modified Genetic Algorithms

Meyer Goldstein, Susan and Shah, Rachna - In Search of Lean Services

Potthoff, Sandy - Rapid Cycle Improvement in Healthcare: Barriers and Facilitators

Sego, Landon - Continuously Monitoring a Small Incidence Rate

Shannon, Richard - Quality Systems for Healthcare Delivery

Steiner, Stefan - Some New Ideas for Reliability Studies

Woodall, William - The Use of Control Charts in Healthcare Monitoring and Public Health Surveillance

Zhu, Michael - Optimal Compound Orthogonal Arrays and Single Arrays for Robust Parameter
Design Experiments

 

Friday, May 20th

Edgeman, Rick - Six Sigma from Products to Pollution to People: Philosophy & Vision for the
Engineering, Natural and Social Environments

Sinha, K.K. - Panel/floor discussion on conference implications and directions for future research

Spiring, Fred - Some Applications of Process Capability Measures Within a Six Sigma Philosophy