Tag Archives: Health

8 Conditions When Research is Put Into Practice: More Lessons From Health Care

Posted on October 22, 2014 by

In Health Care putting research into practice can be high stakes. Changing routines and practices as a result of new findings often has direct impacts on the health, treatment or recovery of patients. A significant contribution to the study of … Continue reading →

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Revisiting the Healthcare Slopegraph – A Python implementation

Posted on June 6, 2012 by

Last summer I shared an adaptation of Tufte’s slopegraph using data from the  Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences‘ (ICES) 2011 Quality Monitor report in the post Education and Health Care – Using Slopegraphs to Understand Complex Systems.  While this initial … Continue reading →

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Education and Health Care – Using Slopegraphs to Understand Complex Systems

Posted on July 18, 2011 by

Both Education and Health Care are complex systems that impact everyone. Those who work in both of these systems dedicate a great deal of time to collect data to inform and support decision making. Unfortunately, data from a complex system … Continue reading →

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