The National Quality Forum issued guidance on reducing unnecessary variations in healthcare quality measures, with the aim of making measurement more consistent and useful in enhancing patient care. A ...

The 'robustness' of a phenotypic trait is the absence or low level of variation when faced with a given incoming variation. Analysis of the propagation of variation in a biological system has been ...

Repeatability is the measurement of variation when a process is done multiple times. Precision is the means of reducing variation in a process, so the results have less variation as a whole.

As healthcare providers wade through hundreds of often burdensome reportable quality measures, a new National Quality Forum study offers guidance on reducing variation and repetition. In 2013, NQF ...