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

The Health Care Data Guide: Learning from Data for Improvement

Medical Books

Provost, Lloyd P.

Murray, Sandra K.

Administration & Medicine Economics

Jossey-Bass Inc Pub

Transform health care delivery with data In the newly revised Second Edition of The Health Care Data Guide: Learning from Data for Improvement, an expert team of authors delivers a comprehensive blueprint for healthcare improvement with data. The book discusses how health care practitioners, researchers, and other professionals can more confidently plan and implement health care enhancements and changes while ensuring that those changes are actually an improvement on the status quo. An excellent companion resource to The Improvement Guide: A Practical Approach to Enhancing Organizational Performance, 2nd Edition, the book also offers: <ul> <li>Comprehensive discussions of using data to test, adapt, implement, and scale positive organizational change</li> <li>Strategies for identifying the role and characteristics of data that can be used for improvement</li> <li>Expansive explorations of the Model for Improvement, a holistic system for health care improvement projects</li> </ul> An ideal resource for health care practitioners, researchers, administrators, and other professionals, The Health Care Data Guide: Learning from Data for Improvement is also a must-read for students of business with an interest in health and health care delivery.

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The Health Care Data Guide: Learning from Data for Improvement

The Health Care Data Guide: Learning from Data for Improvement