Week 5 Assignment: Dataset Analysis & Reflection
MSNC 510 – Advanced Nursing Technologies & Collaborative Care
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Week 5 Assignment: Role of the APN in Federal Strategic Planning for HIT
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MSNC 510 – Advanced Nursing Technologies & Collaborative Care
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Dataset Analysis & Reflection
Federal health data sets are statistics which are collected and managed through governing bodies.
Specifically in the United Sates, there are two common agencies which manage data sets –
HealthData and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). These two entities serve
as great resources for healthcare providers, such as APNs, to study, analyze and interpret data to
help make the best available informed decision for patient care (King et al., 2021). For the
purpose of this essay, we will utilize the CDC’s website to extract the data set - Leading Causes
of Death for 2023 - specifically from the National Vital Statistic System (NVSS). The objective
of this paper is to pinpoint trends, patterns, and any anomalies from the provided information
that as future APNs, will become beneficial to get accustomed to for in-depth understanding on
data set signification, so that translation and application from this given information can be
applied to optimize patient care.
The dataset utilized is the Leading Causes of Death for 2023, which categorizes the 10
leading causes of mortality in 2023 by age, race, gender, and Hispanic origin including neonatal
and infant mortality (Tejada-Vera et al., 2023). The data set’s data collection was obtained from
filed death certificates throughout the 50 states classified by the International Classification of
Diseases, 10th Revision following the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) death ranking
metric. The data ranks adult death mortalities by cause in descending order starting with highest
prevalence: heart disease, malignant neoplasms, unintentional accidental injuries,
cerebrovascular disease, chronic lower respiratory disease, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes,
nephritis and/or nephrotic syndrome and/or nephrosis, chronic liver disease and/or cirrhosis, and
COVID-19. For infants and neonatal deaths, the ranked mortality order is congenital
malformations, chromosomal abnormalities, low birth weight and short gestation disorders,
unclassified, sudden infant death, unintentional accidents, gestational maternal complications