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Clinical Data Mining In Your Practice Setting

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Conclude your reflection with a Brief, but inspiring description on how you envision using CLINICAL DATA MINING in your practice setting In the article "Framework for Mining and Analysis of Standardized Nursing Care Plan Data" presents a comprehensive approach to understanding and utilizing nursing care data. Khokhar and colleagues, 2018 discussed how large data sets have tailored the cycle of nursing care. Within the Urgent care setting, clinical data mining can be vial to identify patterns and trends that can inform APRNs and nursing of appropriate interventions. Utilizing data mining allows for providers and nurses to make interventions appropriate for acute conditions, barrier to health care, decision making and patient care quality (Khokhar, 2018). Data mining can also be used to provide early identification of non-compliant patients, frequent patient visits and provide an accurate transition for proactive care models. This alone will allow for better utilization of res...

Benefits of the EHR for Improving Safety and Quality

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Reflect on the benefits of the Electronic Health Record for Improving Safety and Quality... Have you ever seen this happen? Human Factors in Healthcare EHR systems have many benefits that has "significantly transformed healthcare, enhancing care coordination and improving patient outcomes" (Ibrahim et al., 2024, p. 2). With these benefits come mountainous challenges with quality, patient safety and confidentiality. EHRs help to improve the quality of care through carefully being designed to keep patient information integrity intact. Furthermore, CPOE has been a positive effect on patient care, "demonstrating a 85% reduction in medication prescribing error rates and a 12% reduction in ICU mortality" (Tewfik et al., 2024, p. 679) Other pros of EHR systems include: "clinical decision support systems, computerized physician order entry, effective information transfer and improved documentation, guideline adherence and reduced medication errors" Tewfik et al....