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Applying Technology to Work Smarter
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By
Heather Grain, School of Public Health, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC, Australia
Paula Procter, School of Nursing & Midwifery, University of Sheffield, UK
Description
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.
Audience
Any professional discipline or health student who uses (or will use) health data collected from the clinical area to support healthcare practice.
Contents
Section 1
Introduction
Principles of data entry and quality
- Rationale
- Why do we have
standards?
- What is data?
- Why do we need clean data?
Principles of data storage and retrieval
- Security
of data
- Confidentiality of data
- Ethical use of data
Section 2 Data Manipulation
Transforming
Database Data
Basics
Structure
Find, Sort, Group
Queries
Sharing
Analysing the data
Cross
tab analysis
Charts
Ways of Presenting this Data
Creating meaningful charts
Reading Charts
What
do they tell you?
Employing Graphics
Tips and Tricks
Transforming Spreadsheet Data
Basics
Structure
Filtering
and Sorting
Wildcards
Formatting Data
Analysing the data
Summarising data
?What if? analysis
Ways
of Presenting this Data
Creating meaningful charts
Reading Charts
What do they tell you?
Employing Graphics
Tips
and Tricks
Transforming Word processor Data
Simple Research
Section 3 Presenting Data for Impact
Word
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Document Presentation
PowerPoint
- Basics of presentation
Charts
Web
- Blogs
- Wikis
WiFi
Tips
and Tricks
Conclusion
FAQs
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 304 pages, publication date: SEP-2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-7295-3889-3
ISBN-10: 0-7295-3889-3
Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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