The Health Care Data Guide: Learning from Data for Improvement
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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. Companion Web site: www.josseybass.com/go/provost Review: Easy read….buy this! - Nice and easy read. Real life healthcare examples to put data in perspective. Great book!!! Recommend purchasing for anyone in healthcare quality. Review: The gold standard. - Excellent book that breaks down Healthcare quality data measurement in a meaningful way with well chosen examples.
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| Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 103 Reviews |
S**S
Easy read….buy this!
Nice and easy read. Real life healthcare examples to put data in perspective. Great book!!! Recommend purchasing for anyone in healthcare quality.
Z**D
The gold standard.
Excellent book that breaks down Healthcare quality data measurement in a meaningful way with well chosen examples.
A**R
Wonderful book that provides readers with a host of important ...
Wonderful book that provides readers with a host of important tools for improvement-oriented work. A must for evaluators and engaged researchers everywhere.
M**.
Easy read.
Used for school. Easy read.
P**O
nurses opinion
Health Care Data Guide is ideal for nurses who are just realizing or have known for a long time, the benefit of data to back up projects for improvement to leadership, it is going to be a valuable tool for me.
W**C
Five Stars
Amazing Text that compiles important sources. A must have resource if you deal with health care quality improvement.
H**R
You need this.
Fantastic book for analyzing statistics and data in healthcare. This is a major aspect of my job and now I have a go-to reference.
C**R
A brilliant contribution to improvement science
Clear, practical and immediately applicable in health care improvement.
B**W
Five Stars
Great information on how to use data for quality improvement.
T**D
Five Stars
Wonderful guide and reference book for clinical or other staff seeking to make sustainable improvement
A**P
my definitive source
this is my go-to reference for statistical process control as a measurement for improvement advisor in NHS Scotland. Highly recommended.
I**D
Great resource, poor construction
A great resource for healthcare QI! Digestible even for novices. It has been frustrating that may pages are connected to each other … get out the scissors!
B**U
Five Stars
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