The Health Care Data Guide: Learning from Data for Improvement
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Title
The Health Care Data Guide: Learning from Data for Improvement
Abstract/Description
The Health Care Data Guide is designed to help students and professionals build a skill set specific to using data for improvement of health care processes and systems. Even experienced data users will find valuable resources among the tools and cases that enrich The Health Care Data Guide. Practical and step-by-step, this book spotlights statistical process control (SPC) and develops a philosophy, a strategy, and a set of methods for ongoing improvement to yield better outcomes. Provost and Murray reveal how to put SPC into practice for a wide range of applications including evaluating current process performance, searching for ideas for and determining evidence of improvement, and tracking and documenting sustainability of improvement. A comprehensive overview of graphical methods in SPC includes Shewhart charts, run charts, frequency plots, Pareto analysis, and scatter diagrams. Other topics include stratification and rational sub-grouping of data and methods to help predict performance of processes. Illustrative examples and case studies encourage users to evaluate their knowledge and skills interactively and provide opportunity to develop additional skills and confidence in displaying and interpreting data.
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Date
Edition
1st
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Resource type
Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
Published Text
Scholarship genre
Other
Open access/full-text available
No
Peer reviewed
No
ISBN
978-0-470-90258-5
Citation
Provost, L. P., & Murray, S. K. (2011). The Health Care Data Guide: Learning from Data for Improvement (1st ed.). Jossey-Bass. https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Health+Care+Data+Guide%3A+Learning+from+Data+for+Improvement-p-9780470902585
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