title: How to get your data message across. Charts and graphs can bring reports to life.
abstract: METHODS
  Phoenix Baptist Hospital and Medical Center.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Board members could not understand data contained in voluminous narrative reports. Reports went unread and unused.
  
  
  METHODS
  Reports were reformatted into a graphical presentation, incorporating benchmark data to give measurement meaning.
mesh_terms: D001130:Arizona; D003626:Data Display; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D006764:Hospitals, Community / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000379:methods*