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Collecting statistics for the first time? Start with the basics... Expert, how-to guidance on collecting and presenting meaningful data Statistics Basics: A Resource Guide for Healthcare Managers is a book and CD-ROM package that can serve as a primer for any healthcare manager embarking on the daunting task of collecting and compiling meaningful data. Author Jennifer Cowel, former surveyor and manager of The Joint Commission's ORYX Core Measure program, provides expert guidance on how to identify, compile, analyze, and present statistics to measure performance or validate various quality improvement strategies. “We're supposed to be caring for patients, not gathering data. Why do we need to do this?” Statistics are an integral part of high-quality healthcare today—and will be even more crucial to your job in the future. With new initiatives such as pay-for-performance and public reporting on the horizon, healthcare facilities are under increasing pressure to provide valid and useful statistical information. Here are the facts: Certain Joint Commission standards require hospitals to gather quality data and analyze their findings.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cente

Author

Jennifer K. Cowel, RN, BSN, MHSA

Publisher

HCPro, a division of BLR

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781615691449

Subjects

Medical, Medicine