Data-Guided Healthcare Decision Making

by Ramalingam Shanmugam

How does data evidence matter in decision-making in healthcare? How do you implement and maintain cost effective healthcare operations? Do decision trees help to sharpen decision making? This book will answer these questions, demystifying the many questions by clearly showing how to analyse data and how to interpret the results - vital skills for anyone who will go on to work in health administration in hospitals, clinics, pharmaceutical or insurance industries. Written by an expert in health and medical informatics, this book introduces readers to the fundamentals of operational decision making by illustrating the ideas and tools to reach optimal healthcare, drawing on numerous healthcare data sets from multiple sources. Aimed at an audience of graduate students and lecturers in Healthcare Administration and Business Administration courses and heavily illustrated throughout, this book includes up-to-date concepts, new methodologies and interpretations using widely available software: Excel, Microsoft Mathematics, MathSolver and JASP.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 100921201X
• ISBN13: 9781009212014
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.1" x 10.0"