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.
