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ArticleGlobal journal on quality and safety in healthcare2024

Cause-and-Effect (Fishbone) Diagram: A Tool for Generating and Organizing Quality Improvement Ideas.

Augustine Kumah, Chinwe N Nwogu, Abdul-Razak Issah, Emmanuel Obot, Deborah T Kanamitie, Jerry S Sifa, Lawrencia A Aidoo

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Article in Global journal on quality and safety in healthcare, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors.

Augustine KumahQuality Directorate, Nyaho Medical Centre, Accra, Ghana.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9408-2152
Chinwe N NwoguDepartment of Healthcare Management, University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Abdul-Razak IssahDepartment of Health Information Management, College of Health, Yamfo, Ghana.
Emmanuel ObotDepartment of Anesthesia, 37 Military Hospital, Accra, Ghana.
Deborah T KanamitieQuality Directorate, Nyaho Medical Centre, Accra, Ghana.
Jerry S SifaDepartment of Public Health, University of Ghana Hospital, Accra, Ghana.
Lawrencia A AidooDepartment of Nursing, Ghana Health Service, Cape Coast, Ghana.

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6 · The paper itself

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cause and effectfishbone diagramquality improvement tool

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PMID38725884
PMCPMC11077513

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