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Simple Data Collection Planning

Last Modified: 07/08/2011

Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Simple data collection planning is a process to ensure that the data you collect for performance improvement are useful and reliable, without being unnecessarily costly and time-consuming to obtain.

Simple data collection planning has a variety of benefits:

It helps to ensure that the data gathered contain real information, useful to the improvement effort.
It prevents errors that commonly occur in the data collection process.
It saves time and money that otherwise might be spent on repeated or failed attempts to collect useful data.

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Simple Data Collection Planning

Know When Enough Data is Enough
Measurement should speed improvement, not slow it down; a team needs just enough data to make a sensible judgment as to next steps.
Sampling
Sampling is used to simplify the gathering of data for improvement and to prevent unnecessary data collection.

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