Patent ID: 8560346

Claim:
A system for ranking quality improvement factors in patient care, the system comprising: an input configured to receive a user selection of a quality criterion for operation of a medical facility and to receive user activation, at the medical facility, of a statistical analysis of the quality criterion; a computer readable media having stored therein values for a plurality of variables associated with care of a plurality of patients treated at the medical facility; a processor configured to determine a quality pass/fail score for each of the patients comprising an analysis of at least one of the plurality of variables for each of the patients and perform the statistical analysis, in response to the user activation, of the quality criterion as a function of the variables and the values for the variables for the patients of the medical facility, wherein the performance of the statistical analysis comprises determining a relevance of individual variables of the plurality of variables to the quality pass/fail scores across the patients of the medical facility and ranking the variables by the determined relevance; and a display, at the medical facility, configured to output an identification of at least a first one of the variables and at least one value for the first variable based on the ranking.