Using Health Data: Applying Technology to Work Smarter - Softcover

Grain, Heather; Procter, Paula

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0729538893 ISBN 13: 9780729538893

Publisher: Churchill Livingstone, 2008

Synopsis

Using Health Data addresses the enduring problem faced by most healthcare workers: the transformation and presentation of data into meaningful and accessible information. This practical new text will guide the manipulation of health data needed by the 'doers' and 'users' of health data.

Using Health Data takes 'real' examples from healthcare practice to illustrate, demonstrate and provide advice. It also describes various quantitative quality control charting and plotting methods to enable the effective presentation of data. While the text addresses the fundamentals of data manipulation, the interactive companion website allows readers to practice transforming real data into meaningful information.

Using Health Data will aid the reader in:
- understanding how to transform qualitative data into quantitative measures;
- linking data from multiple sources to create new information and
- differentiating between different types of health data; administrative, for planning or resource scheduling; and clinical evidence.

• concise and practical guide to using data for health students and practitioners
• information is divided into accessible sections with clear and straightforward progression of skills
• screen dumps, charts and graphs are integrated throughout
• icons in the text direct readers to web-based activities
• Tips and Tricks at end of each section, and FAQs at the end of the text
• activities are built around real-world examples in healthcare

About this title

Review

"The reader is taken through the core functions of the programs clearly and logically...The book is useful for students and qualified staff who need Office to write letters, analyse basic data, create a database and give a presentation...This is a helpful source of information.

Nursing Standard, 26 May 2010

"With a clear shift around the globe, in relation to data management and computer based patient management systems, this book will inform and practically engage those who want to learn more. With any computer base publication currency is limited but for those who want to safely experiment or need ideas of how to present information this book is likely to be very helpful."

Journal of Orthopaedic Nursing

Synopsis

This book addresses the enduring problem faced by most healthcare workers: how to transform data into meaningful and accessible information once they have collected it and then how to present it for maximum effect. This text will be hands on and include some basic statistical concepts with relevant health examples for manipulation and management. It is not an informatics text or a text for informatics experts. It is a book that will guide the manipulation of health data needed by the doers and users of health data. The approach to this book will be practical, informative and accessible. It will be based on real examples from healthcare practice to illustrate, demonstrate and provide advice. It will address the pitfalls and it will offer some resolutions of these.This book will also address how data can be presented to gain the greatest benefit using various quantitative quality control charting and plotting methods. This book will address the fundamentals of data manipulation and the web site - the interactive learning aspects.

Edition details

• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0729538893
• ISBN 13: 9780729538893
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304