The promise of big data: improving patient safety and nursing practice. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

The promise of big data: improving patient safety and nursing practice. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Commentary
 
• Published February 2016

The promise of big data: improving patient safety and nursing practice.

Linnen D. Nursing. 2016 Mar 29; [Epub ahead of print].

Big data is gaining attention as a way to improve quality and safety. This commentary discusses how outcomes data can be applied to enhance safety of nursing care and reviews limitations to successfully using analytics, including insufficient interoperability and inadequate funding to design effective tools.

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