Imogen Todd

CMS Simulation Study Infographic

I developed an infographic for a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) report about the effects of reduced nursing staff numbers on levels of patient care. I worked with the team who developed the study's computer simulation to develop an infographic that could communicate their process to healthcare professionals and government officials who may not be familiar with simulation studies. You can view the infographic in the published report (in section 4).

Abt Global

information design

an infographic using pictograms and scatterplots to explain how a computer simulation is run and how different numbers of nursing staff can affect the care that patients receive in nursing homes

The final infographic included in the report

an infographic showing colored squares to represent computer-generated simulation experiments

Draft elements of the infographic not used in the final version

icons to represent patients with different needs and nursing staff

Icons used in the infographic to represent nursing staff and patients with different levels of needs