Pareto chart


A Pareto chart is a bar chart showing how often different categories of events take place, ordered with the most common to the left, and the least common to the right. It sometimes also includes a line showing the cumulative frequency (adding each column’s value to the previous ones in turn). Using a Pareto chart allows us to focus on where improvement efforts will make most impact.

Click on the link below for further information

Pareto Chart

This resource is from the NHS Scotland Quality Improvement HUB

On this website you will find quality improvement topics, tools, case studies, news, current awareness bulletins, and access to the evidence base provided via Evidence into Practice and Health Improvement Evidence.

The Quality Improvement Hub website provides a range of resources to support organisations to improve the quality of healthcare. These Quality Improvement topics cover a range of subjects that are relevant to delivering quality improvement.