Measuring Patient Outcomes

Dr. Marie T. Nolan is internationally renowned for her work on patient and family decision making in the face of critical illness. Her research focuses on the decision-making process at the end of life and on decisions regarding living organ donation, key issues in both clinical care and bioethics. Her pioneering end-of-life research has revealed that instead of the autonomous decision making model prevalent in clinical practice and health care policy, most critically ill patients prefer shared decision making with their family and physician. At Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Dr. Nolan chairs the Department of Acute and Chronic Care. She also previously directed the PhD program and is the Johns Hopkins Director for the first nursing doctoral program in China, a collaboration between Peking Union Medical College and the School funded by the China Medical Board of New York. She is also Advisory Board Member of the International Nursing Doctoral Education Network. Dr. Nolan holds a joint faculty appointment in the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, is the Evaluation Core Director for the School Center for Collaborative Intervention Research, and has served on advisory panels of the National Institutes of Health regarding end-of-life care research. Widely published in the nursing and multidisciplinary research literature, Dr. Nolan has edited two books, Measuring Patient Outcomes (2000) and Transplantation Nursing: Acute and Long-term Management (1995).

PART ONE: THE PROCESS OF PATIENT OUTCOMES MANAGEMENT The Identification of Patient Outcomes - Marie T Nolan and Victoria Mock Selection of Instruments to Measure Outcomes and Planning for Data Management - Victoria Mock and Marie T Nolan Creation and Manipulation of SPSS Data Files - Marie T Nolan Overview of Statistical Methods for Measuring Patient Outcomes - Victoria Mock Persuasive Presentation of Patient Outcomes Graphics - Marie T Nolan Scanning Technology to Automate Data Entry - Laura J Burke and Barbara F Gaegelow PART TWO: CASE STUDIES IN PATIENT OUTCOMES MANAGEMENT Acute Care Factors Associated with Leg Graft Wound Complications Following Coronary Artery Bypass - Maura A Goldsborough Evaluation of the Effect of a Critical Pathway for Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Graft - Suzanne J Rumble, Marinell H Jernigan and Pamela T Rudisill Quality of Life Following the Whipple Procedure - JoAnn Coleman Precursors of Patient Seclusion in a Psychiatric Patient Population - Donna Brannan and Judith M Rohde Maternal/Child Care Outcomes of Early Hospital Discharge of Women Undergoing Abdominal Hysterectomy - Andrea O Hollingsworth and Susan M Cohen Swimming and Central Venous Catheter-Related Infections in Children with Cancer - Jacqueline Robbins, Philene Cromwell and David N Korones Primary Care Measurement of Urinary Continence Recovery Following Radical Prostatectomy - Penny Marschke A Clinical Outcomes Study to Evaluate the Cost-Effectiveness of New Anti-Emetic Guidelines to Manage Chemotherapy-Related Nausea and Vomiting - Christine A Engstrom

"This book brings together the experience of health care professionals and the lastest knowledge about what it takes to: Identify and measure patient outcomes successfully and practically Analyze and illustrate reliable and valid outcomes data using the latest technology and computer packages; and Utilize the results of systematic, interdisciplinary outcomes studies to improve care and plan future studies." -- Veronica F. Rempusheski, PhD, RN, FAAN * Foreword *