What was that aha moment when you realized you needed to address clinical variation? Steven Goldstein, CEO of Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, N.Y., said it wasn’t so much an “ aha moment” but a ...

Objectives To examine how the population composition, practice organisation and geographical context of general practice clinics are associated with unwarranted variation in prescribing patterns ...

Concerns about biodiversity tend to focus on the loss of species from ecosystems, but a new study suggests that the loss of variation within species can also have important ecological consequences.

Cryptic genetic variation (CGV) is genetic variation that normally has little or no effect on phenotype but that, under atypical conditions that were rare in the history of a population, generates ...

Since no two things are exactly alike, variation affects us in every aspect of our lives. Surprisingly, most American managers still don't pay much attention to variation. When they do look at it, ...

Variation is the differences between individuals of the same species, caused by genetic and environmental factors. Surveys into variation give data that are continuous, which means to come in a range, ...

A central part of quality management involves tracking, identifying and managing changes that occur in a system or process; these are variations. When changes are planned and executed well, the ...