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Fishbone Diagram

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Description

Fishbone Diagrams (also known as Cause and Effect Diagrams) help team members visually explore a problem and come to a consensus around the problem and its root causes.

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Fishbone/Cause and effect: Instruction

Health Quality Ontario (n.d.). Fishbone/Cause and effect: Instruction. Retrieved from https://www.hqontario.ca/Portals/0/Documents/qi/qi-fishbone-instruction-sheet-ac-en.pdf

Canadian En français Visit Source

How to use the fishbone tool for root cause analysis

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (n.d.). How to use the fishbone tool for root cause analysis. Retrieved from https://www.cms.gov/medicare/provider-enrollment-and-certification/qapi/downloads/fishbonerevised.pdf

Fishbone template

The Compass (n.d.). Fishbone template. Retrieved from https://www.nccmt.ca/uploads/media/media/0001/03/8e75dc9c0a6aeedc6e17c2f49a69cd7b908c6ad0.pdf

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Fishbone diagrams

Western Regional Public Health Training Center (2013). Fishbone diagrams. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rLB-1z9cPY

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Fishbone diagram

Center for Disease Control (CDC) Division for Scientific Education and Professional Development (2011). Factors affecting the public health workforce. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dsepd/documents/ph-workforce-factors.pdf

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Canadian Template available Example available Journal article Video available Evaluated/validated Check institutional access En français

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