Understanding and managing variation should assist policy makers, managers and clinicians to align the capacity of health care systems and organisational processes with desired results.
The findings provoked a discussion on the need for managing variation in water quality samples when attempting to develop successful linkages between landscape indices and stream conditions.
The optimization of hospital care resources by managing variation in the admission and discharge processes has proven to be effective.
Therefore, the choice of penalty plays an important role in managing variation in breeding values and additive-genetic relationships.
Intermittent supply is already being tackled with interconnectors - basically, huge cables connecting the UK with European countries like Norway to manage variations in supply coming from renewables.
Lot-size capping is introduced to manage variations in batch sizes and product mix.
Three policy strategies to manage variations between planned and actual costs are discussed: improving funding authorization estimates, improving contingency policies, and using economies of scale in procurement packaging.
Intra-institution controls on fingermark quality assessment are likely to help manage variations between researchers from the same institution and/or project(s).
Healthcare managers, clinical researchers and individual patients (and their physicians) manage variation differently to achieve different ends.
