Data Management

This toolkit guides you in using health information technology to support quality improvement. It includes the following topics:

• understanding clinical quality metric basics
• choosing a data-extraction approach
• self-assessing a practice’s ability to report
• validating aggregate-level data
• creating data visualisations
• getting buy-in to use health information technology

The toolkit instructs on how to extract data from electronic and paper information systems, validate the data, and present data graphically to show progress. Authored by Healthy Heart Northwest.

CATMA is a free qualitative research software. CATMA can be used to tag, highlight, and annotate text all within your browser.

Some additional features of CATMA include sharing/collaboration tools, tagging hierarchy for more nuanced systems of tagging, and some basic visualization tools for your data.

To get started, try the tutorial on the CATMA website or read through the CATMA user manual. Note: many CATMA tutorials on the website are in German, however, English subtitles can be enabled.

Health Data Australia is a national catalogue of Australian health data for researchers to discover and request access to data for their research.

The Atlas displays health and social wellbeing indicators by sex for every local government area in Victoria. The platform currently contains 70 indicators from a range of government and other sources, grouped into 8 priority health areas (includeing cancer). The Atlas makes visible the story for women (compared with men), variation by location, and trends over time. Outputs include: maps with supporting text, bar charts, trend graphs, data tables, and factsheets. The Atlas, updated 3 times per year, is a reliable source of sex-disaggregated health data to support women’s health and gender equality awareness, understanding and action at statewide, regional and local area level.

This guide takes you through some key features of Microsoft Word. Where possible, the instructions provided are general so as to be applicable to whatever version of the software you have. For detailed instructions on any of the topics covered (or anything else not covered), remember Google is your friend and other guides can usually be found online.

This document covers some of the key features of Microsoft Excel. Note that some of the instructions provided may differ slightly for different versions of the software, so for detailed instructions on any of the concepts covered for a different version of Excel (or for anything else), you may like to try searching the name of the concept using your preferred search engine.

This checklist will help you set up and maintain robust data management practices and systems through the full life of a project.

This template may used to develop a data management plan, as part of a research proposal.

This template may used to develop a data management plan, as part of a research proposal.

The data management plan (DMP) template is a guide for Australian Government agencies to develop data management plans to support their information and data governance requirements. We expect that the.

Template for planning data collection.