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Are Case Studies Useful?

By Gayle Porter
December 5, 2022

My father used to complain that he had “tired ears.” I didn’t understand what he meant until I became a parent: When I took a walk with my two-year-old

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Finding Data in the Patient’s Story

By Gayle Porter
November 28, 2022

The first time I watched the film, The Matrix, I remember looking at the ones and zeroes on Neo’s screen and wondering, “What is the story? Where is the

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What Was Done Before?

By Gayle Porter
November 7, 2022

The library is one of my favorite places. And why shouldn’t it be? There are centuries of knowledge in those dusty books. It was at the library that Sister

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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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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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