Strong data management knowledge and skills are a requirement for every DNP graduate. This unique text focuses on fostering the rigorous, meticulous data management skills that can improve care experience, health outcomes, and cost-savings worldwide. It provides a knowledge base, describes the regulatory and ethical context, outlines a process to guide evaluation, presents a compendium of resources, and includes examples of evaluation of translation effects. It takes the DNP student step-by-step through the complete process of data management including planning, data collection, data governanc.

Introduction to clinical data management / Mary F. Terhaar -- Basic statistical concepts and power analysis / Martha L. Sylvia -- Preparing for data collection / Martha L. Sylvia -- Developing the analysis plan / Martha Sylvia & Mary F. Terhaar -- Data governance and stewardship / Martha Sylvia & Mary F. Terhaar -- Creating the analysis data set / Martha L. Sylvia -- Exploratory data analysis / Martha L. Sylvia & Shannon Murphy -- Outcomes data analysis / Martha L. Sylvia & Shannon Murphy -- Summarizing the results of the project evaluation / Martha L. Sylvia -- Ongoing monitoring / Melissa Sherry.