Publicly Available Healthcare Databases for Administrative Strategic Planning

Abstract

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.

Use of Electronic Health-Related Datasets in Nursing and Health-Related Research

“…The rapidly changing and increasingly complex health care marketplace has also created new challenges for health services delivery-a large component of the health field. New and expanded health care datasets have forced health care administrators to access them for planning and decision-making (Vahey, Corser, & Brennan, 2001). Moreover, the pressure to improve the quality of health care services at lower cost with limited resources has promoted the use of datasets to assess quality, analyze outcomes, and develop guidelines (Appari, Johnson, & Anthony, 2013).…”