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| Quality Improvement Report |
| February 2008 |
| Data collection needs to bring about change |
| Editor's note: This is the first article in a regular series about how to collect and analyze data.
Don't waste your time collecting data unless it's part of a closed control loop that leads to changes in your hospital.
"The reason we measure data is because data is part of a closed loop, and the reason we have a closed loop is that we want to change something," says Ken Rohde, author of the new book Making Your Data Work: Tools and Templates for Effective Analysis, published by HCPro, Inc., and a senior consultant for The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro in Marblehead, MA. "We either want to change behaviors, or we want to say, 'It's exactly at the right point; let's keep it here,' " he says. |
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