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Replace the causes in this example Ishikawa diagram with your observations. The branches ('Provider', 'Patient', etc) can be removed, replaced, or added to. See Wikipedia for explanations of:

 

'Provider'=c('Distracted','Unaware','Inaccessible knowledge','Nonparsable documentation','Not motivated','Not done: reason unknown'), 'Patient'=c('No visit during time period','Multiple complaints','TTM: early stage','HBM: ____', 'No resource: _____'), 'System'=c('Acute vs continuity visit', 'Specialty vs primary care', 'Personnel absent','Supplies unavailable','Bean counting error'), 'Personnel'=c('Distracted','Inaccessible knowledge','Nonparsable documentation','Not done: reason unknown','Not motivated','Not empowered')

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