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Expert, how-to guidance on collecting and presenting meaningful data A new addition to HCPro's Basics series, Statistics Basics: A Resource Guide for Healthcare Managers delivers on its name. This logical book and CD-ROM are a primer for any healthcare manager embarking on the daunting task of collecting and compiling meaningful data. Author Jennifer Cowel, former surveyor and manager of The Joint Commission's ORYX Core Measure program, provides expert guidance on how to identify, compile, analyze, and present statistics to measure performance or validate various quality improvement strategies. We're supposed to be caring for patients, not gathering data. Why do we need to do this? Statistics are an integral part of high-quality healthcare today-and will be even more crucial to your job in the future. With new initiatives such as pay-for-performance and public reporting on the horizon, healthcare facilities are under increasing pressure to provide valid and useful statistical information.

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Jennifer K. Cowel, RN, MHSA, is a vice president with Patton Healthcare Consulting, LLC. Prior to joining Patton Healthcare Consulting, Ms. Cowel held a variety of leadership and management roles during more than 17 years with The Joint Commission. Her work included Standards Improvement Initiatives, implementation and testing of Shared Visions--New Pathways (R), and the creation of management tools and a paperless tracking system for the 10,000 accreditation reports produced each year. Ms. Cowel also worked in The Joint Commission's ORYX program, and managed the introduction of Core Measures into Joint Commission-accredited hospitals and integration of core measures into the accreditation process. In addition, she developed and directed the launch of The Joint Commission's Network Accreditation Program and directed the multimillion-dollar Agenda for Change initiative, which resulted in streamlined standards and a redesigned accreditation survey.

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