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Ghazisaeidi, M., Safdari, R., Torabi, M., Mirzaee, M., Farzi, J., & Goodini, A. (2015). Development of performance dashboards in healthcare sector: Key practical issues. Acta Informatica Medica: AIM: Journal of The Society For Medical Informatics of Bosnia & Herzegovina: Casopis Drustva Za Medicinsku Informatiku Bih, 23(5), 317–321.
Ghazisaeidi et al. researched how to improve the methods to collect data on key performance indicators for not only accuracy, but also to be able to more quickly respond to indicators which do not meet established thresholds.

Joshi, M., Ransom, E. R., Nash, D. B., & Ransom, S. B. (2014). Dashboards and scorecards: Tools for creating alignment. In The healthcare quality book: Vision, strategy, and tools (3rd ed., pp. 241-267). Chicago, IL: Health Administration Press.
Chapter 10 provides an overview and importance of the performance dashboard for executives to not only monitor the data, but to look for trends to take early measures to improve.

McGlothlin, J. (2018). Accelerating analytics for clinical pathways to drive cost reduction and quality improvement. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI), Salt Lake City, UT, 2018, pp. 426-435.
McGlothlin reports on the benefits of creating clinical pathways on patient outcomes. However, the author notes how time consuming it is to gather performance data and create the decision tree needed for each pathway and provides suggestions for the use of data analytics and visualizations to understand trending better.

Pace, A., & Buttigieg, S. C. (2017). Can hospital dashboards provide visibility of information from bedside to board? A case study approach. Journal of Health Organization & Management, 31(2), 142-161.
Pace and Buttigieg provide their definition of a dashboard in terms of a graphical display of business performance to inform decision making. The authors also discuss types of dashboards depending on the type of data collected and for whom.

Ward, M., McAuliffe, E., Fitzsimons, J., & O’Donovan, R. (2019). Informing healthcare team performance: Integrating data to improve quality and safety. International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation, 8(1), 53–56.
Healthcare systems must collect and analyze data to be informed on the organizational performance in business metrics, and healthcare quality and safety. Ward et al. found the use of key performance indicators to monitor quality and safety and the resulting data needs to be widely communicated to assure executive leaders have the big picture.