Evaluating Quality Patient Outcomes

How can data provide information to evaluate quality patient outcomes? Give an example of data which can reflect poor quality in care. How can quality improvement be a daily task in patient care? Why does continuous quality improvement need to be associated with change?

As nurses, we are constantly collecting and analyzing data. For example, we do this in taking a blood pressure reading and looking at the values over the past day or year.

How can data provide information to evaluate quality patient outcomes? Give an example of data that can reflect poor quality in care. How can quality improvement be a daily task in patient care? Why does continuous quality improvement need to be associated with change?