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Basic Data Integration in Healthcare

By Gayle Porter
October 31, 2022

Last week’s article talked about how Vital Signs can represent the three types of data we use in quality improvement analytics. This week we explore what happens if we

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Data Analysis: Healthcare Vital Signs

By Gayle Porter
October 24, 2022

As a nurse, I have a love-hate relationship with data. Sometimes, data can be the silver bullet that reveals the source of a complex problem, and other times, it

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Null: The Case for a Failure Library

By Gayle Porter
October 17, 2022

I recently learned that the NIH is questioning 16 years of Alzheimer’s research after indications of falsified imaging were identified in one of the seminal studies. Apparently, the images

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Rounding

By Gayle Porter
October 10, 2022

Research shows that bedside nurses who told patients they would check on them every hour on a handful of critical topics (belongings, pain, etc.) were able to reduce patient

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Part II: What is Quality for the Rest of Us?

By Gayle Porter
October 3, 2022

At first, I was disappointed with some of the reactive responses to adverse events: Nurses on my team were sometimes counseled or written up for being the “origin” of

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Part I: What is Quality for the Rest of Us?

By Gayle Porter
September 26, 2022

What is the purpose of Healthcare Quality Improvement (QI) exactly? And what does it mean to have quality “for the rest of us”? At the most basic level, Healthcare

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