Measuring patient outcomes

Measuring patient outcomes / [edited] by Marie T. Nolan and Victoria Mock.

'Measuring Patient Outcomes' uses the statistical analysis programme SPSS to analyse patient outcomes data and create graphs summarising this data. A series of case studies describing successful patient outcomes projects is included.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Nolan, Marie T., Mock, Victoria
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2000.
Subjects:
Outcome assessment (Medical care)
Nursing.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Disease & Health Issues.
Nursing
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Table of Contents:
  • The identification of patient outcomes / Marie T. Nolan and Victoria Mock
  • Selection of instruments to measure outcomes and planning for data management / Victoria Mock and Marie T. Nolan
  • Creation and manipulation of SPSS data files / Marie T. Nolan
  • Overview of statistical methods for measuring patient outcomes / Victoria Mock
  • Persuasive presentation of patient outcomes graphics / Marie T. Nolan
  • Scanning technology to automate data entry / Laura J. Burke and Barbara F. Paegelow
  • Factors associated with leg graft wound complications following coronary artery bypass / Maura A. Goldsborough
  • Evaluation of the effect of a critical pathway for patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft / Suzanne J. Rumble, Marinell H. Jernigan, and Pamela T. Rudisill
  • Quality of life following the Whipple procedure / JoAnn Coleman
  • Precursors of patient seclusion in a psychiatric patient population / Donna L. Brannan and Judith M. Rohde
  • Outcomes of early hospital discharge of women undergoing abdominal hyserectomy / Andrea O. Hollingsworth and Susan M. Cohen
  • Swimming and central venous catheter-related infections in children with cancer / Jacqueline Robbins, Philene Cromwell, and David N. Korones
  • Measurement of urinary continence recovery following radical prostatectomy / Penny Marschke
  • A clinical outcomes study to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of new antiemetic guidelines for the management of chemotherapy-related nausea and vomiting / Christine A. Engstrom.

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