Session 5 | Data Analysis

This session will focus on the important role data analysis plays in successful infection prevention. Attendees will be given examples on how to use data to perform root cause analysis and inform policies and procedures within the acute care hospital setting.

Target Audience

This course is designed for novice, beginner and newly competent staff working in IP. Anyone whose hospital is participating in the Compass HQIC program is eligible to participate.

Learning Objectives

  • Define the basics of surveillance
  • Identify the difference between incidence and prevalence
  • Describe rates, ratios and proportions and their use in epidemiology
  • Illustrate best ways to display data using charts and graphs
  • Outline methods to analyze data
  • Discuss statistical significance and its importance in data analysis
Course summary
Course opens: 
07/15/2021
Course expires: 
07/15/2026
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This session will focus on the important role data analysis plays in successful infection prevention. Attendees will be given examples on how to use data to perform root cause analysis and inform policies and procedures within the acute care hospital setting.

  • Define the basics of surveillance
  • Identify the difference between incidence and prevalence
  • Describe rates, ratios and proportions and their use in epidemiology
  • Illustrate best ways to display data using charts and graphs
  • Outline methods to analyze data
  • Discuss statistical significance and its importance in data analysis

LINDA R. GREENE

Linda R. Greene, RN, MPS, CIC, FAPIC, is Director of Infection Prevention at the University of Rochester Highland Hospital, Rochester, New York. She has extensive experience in infection prevention in the acute care, long-term care and ambulatory surgery settings. Greene held leadership roles in her local Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) chapter before becoming a member of the APIC Board of Directors. She served as APIC president in 2017. Greene serves APIC and the IPC profession in myriad ways, including as an advisor and contributor to APIC position papers and implementation guides. The author of dozens of peer-reviewed publications, she is an expert on quality improvement, antimicrobial stewardship and healthcare-associated infections.

2.0 nursing contact hours will be awarded for each live session in the webinar series by IHA, Iowa Board of Nursing Provider No. 4. Iowa nursing contact hours will not be issued unless your Iowa license number was provided at registration. For nursing contact hours to be offered, you must log in individually, your webinar sign-in and sign-out times will be verified. Partial credit for individual sessions will not be granted.

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