How to create cause-and-effect diagrams

Learn how to create a cause-and-effect diagram, also known as an Ishikawa or "fishbone" diagram, to explore and display the possible causes of a certain effect.

From our free online course, “Practical Improvement Science in Health Care: A Roadmap for Getting Results”:


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[ANGELNEGR]

Thank you, Sir, really help me to create my own fishbone base on your explanation.

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[gynna]

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[D]

Thanks. What is the process of identifying the causes?

[partiallyhydrogenatedsaffl]

Could someone define a term I'm trying to think of? What would you call an attribution error where an incorrect cause is attributed to the observed effect?

[kathybramley]

Five whys is a different strategy to this one, even if there's a core principle in it that you considered cognate, but otherwise - good and interesting work!

[panjisemarang]

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[gnt]

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Watching this for the worst class in school

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[rasathie]

Fish bone diagram 6 .... Man, machine, method, measure, environment, material