The Health Care Data Guide: Learning from Data for Improvement

The second edition of The Health Care Data Guide: Learning from Data for Improvement provides a practical blueprint for using available data to improve healthcare outcomes. It offers easy-to-use strategies for learning more readily from existing health care data, clear guidance on the most useful graphs for different types of data, and a step-by-step method for making use of highly aggregated data for improvement.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 656 pages
Publication date: 08 August 2022
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

The Health Care Data Guide: Learning from Data for Improvement, Second Edition is a vital resource for transforming raw data into tangible healthcare improvements. Written by a team of distinguished authors, this comprehensive guide offers a practical blueprint for leveraging available data to enhance healthcare outcomes. The book delves into how healthcare practitioners, researchers, and professionals can confidently plan and implement enhancements and changes, ensuring they genuinely contribute to improvement.

This second edition of the book is an essential companion to The Improvement Guide: A Practical Approach to Enhancing Organizational Performance, Second Edition. It provides in-depth discussions on how to use data to test, adapt, implement, and scale positive organizational change. The guide offers easy-to-follow strategies for leveraging existing healthcare data, utilizing the most effective graphs for different types of data, and employing step-by-step methods for making use of highly aggregated data for improvement.

Examples of using patient-level data in care are provided, along with multiple methods for utilizing patient and other feedback data. The book also presents a vastly improved way to view data for executive leadership, offering solutions for working with rare events data, seasonality, and other pesky issues. Improvement methods are applied to epidemic data, and case studies using data for learning are included.

This book is a must-read for those committed to improving healthcare, including allied health professionals across all aspects of healthcare, physicians, managers, healthcare leaders, and researchers. By harnessing the power of data, practitioners can make informed decisions, drive innovation, and ultimately improve patient outcomes. The Health Care Data Guide: Learning from Data for Improvement, Second Edition serves as a valuable tool for achieving excellence in healthcare delivery.

Weight: 1450g
Dimension: 218 x 275 x 36 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781119690139
Edition number: 2nd Edition