Jake Flanaghan,Vice President for inpatient pharmacy,at Great Atlantic Medical Center,is designing a c chart to monitor the number of inpatient medication errors that occur each month. The total number of medication errors for January - December last year was 37. The upper control limit for Jake's c chart is ___________.

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To calculate the upper control limit (UCL) for the c chart, we need to use the formula:

UCL = c + 3*sqrt(c)

where c is the average number of errors per month.

To find the average number of errors per month, we divide the total number of errors (37) by the number of months (12):

c = 37/12

c ≈ 3.08

Now we can plug this value into the UCL formula:

UCL = 3.08 + 3*sqrt(3.08)

UCL ≈ 8.35

Therefore, the upper control limit for Jake's c chart is 8.35.

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