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MSN 510 Week 5 Assignment: Dataset Analysis &
Reflection
West Coast University
MSNC 510 – Advanced Nursing Technologies & Collaborative Care
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
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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
MSN 510 Week 5 Assignment: Dataset Analysis &
Reflection
West Coast University
MSNC 510 – Advanced Nursing Technologies & Collaborative Care
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
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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
