Publicly available healthcare databases for administrative strategic planning.
Existing public databases may help nurse administrators better understand the rapidly changing and increasingly complex healthcare environment. The authors discuss the availability of public healthcare databases and demonstrate through a hypothetical query how nurse administrators can use these databases during their decision-making efforts.
Vahey
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DC
University of Pennsylvania, Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, USA. dvahey@nursing.upenn.edu
Corser
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Brennan
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PF
D019985:Benchmarking; D016208:Databases, Factual / Q000592:standards; D003660:Decision Support Systems, Management / Q000592:standards; D006077:Government Agencies; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D009718:Nurse Administrators; D010934:Planning Techniques; D014481:United States; D014584:User-Computer Interface