Full Description
Clinical data mining in an allied health organisation: a real world experienceshows how data-mining methodology can be used to promote quality management and research in the work of allied health professions. A collection of clinical data-mining projects, conducted by a variety of discipline-specific and multidisciplinary allied health groups in regional Australia, illustrate the application of the Epstein's clinical data-mining research methodology. The chapters reflect on the ways in which this approach transforms practice by encouraging practitioner and organisational learning, client-focused service improvement and professional role satisfaction.
This book is aimed at allied health, medical and nursing professionals interested in clinical practice research, quality management and those who wish to start small-scale research projects without large grants. It will be also of interest to health service managers seeking information about data-mining methodology and its use in a clinical setting.
Contents
Preface
Contributors
Introduction
Roslyn Giles, Anne E. Vertigan, Irwin Epstein and David Rhodes
A data-mining medley for physiotherapists: cleaning up data codes, evaluating service and improving client outcomes
Judith Henderson, Christine Smith, Damien Smith, Chris Barnett, Robin Haskins and Kate Rutledge
The long and winding road: creating an outcome tool for 'prospective data mining' of social work services
Fran Hodgson and Roslyn Giles
Tackling solastalgia: improving pathways to care for farming families
Phoebe Begg and Sarah Thompson
Mending bones and maximising independence: data mining an orthopaedic rehabilitation inpatient independent living unit
Jenny Swancott
The hepatitis C treatment trifecta: alcohol, marijuana and mental illness
Gabrielle Murphy
Applying data mining to a cohort of acute traumatic brain injury admissions: our experiences
Glade Vyslysel and Lisa Channon
Treating lost language: speech pathology management of aphasia in the acute hospital setting
Luisa Renna and Anne E. Vertigan
Unravelling low back pain in an outpatient physiotherapy service
Chris Barnett, Judith Henderson, Robin Haskins, Carla Dyson and Peter Osmotherly
Pre-operative assessment of voice abnormalities in patients with thyroid disease: a clinical data-mining exploration of 'thyroid voice'
Sarah L. Bone, Anne E. Vertigan and Robert L. Eisenberg
Acronyms
Index
