Patient Safety Dashboard Using Statistical Process Control and Data Visualisation to make sense of data

NHS Safety Thermometer Collected 1 day every month Monitors prevalence of harm in all patients Visualisations available at https://www.safetythermometer.nhs.uk Datasets available at http://content.digital.nhs.uk/searchcatalogue

Examples of available visualisations

Some issues…. Difficult to see exact values for Trusts and harms Only comparison with National level Funnel plot time period unclear Can’t identify individual trusts, and too much dispersion

What can we do? We have pulled together data for trusts in Yorkshire into an interactive dashboard: http://www.improvementacademy.org/observatory/patient-safety-dashboard.html Shows latest 2 years of data for a Trust harm, with a funnel plot showing Trust comparison for the previous month Comparison to National and Yorkshire & Humber Available online or through an Excel file

Example Charts

Version 2! In development – test version available Can choose start month and baseline period Option to display where SPC rules have been triggered Can navigate through monthly funnel plots to compare https://public.tableau.com/profile/improvement.academy#!/vizhome/SafetyThermometerDashboard-v3/Dashboard3

V2 Screenshot

Conclusions Data can be made much more meaningful and accessible by tweaking the presentation Sometimes this takes some work, get feedback from users where possible If your work is used repeatedly over time, periodically revisit to see how it can be improved If something is available nationally, don’t assume this is the best way to present the data – think for yourself based on your experience with what works!