In this assignment, you will create a presentation providing statistical data.

Objectives

• Describe the major sources of health care data.
• Distinguish between various types of health care data and statistics.
• Discuss practical concepts, principles, and application of statistics in allied hea
• Discuss statistical methods and stud
• Perform exploratory data analysis using descriptive statistic
• Compute basic descriptive statistic
• Use applied health indicators and data in statistic
• Calculate risk factors of
• Distinguish between the roles of epidemiology and statistics in the prevention of disease.
• Calculate health care facility rates.
• Describe the impact that research can have on effectiveness and efficiency in health care.
• Describe the importance of statistics in health care.
• Distinguish between a sample and a population.
• Describe the differences between descriptive and inferential statistics.
• Differentiate between a statistic and a parameter.
• Describe the major sources of health care data.
• Describe the importance of constructing a frequency distribution.
• Define the terms class frequency, class interval, lower class limit, upper class limit, and the midpoint of the class mark.
• Distinguish between ungrouped and grouped distributions.
• Distinguish between frequency and cumulative frequency.
• Demonstrate how to construct a frequency, a cumulative frequency, and a relative frequency distribution.
• Identify percentiles, deciles, and quartiles.
• Explain patient data collection techniques.
• Compute fractions, decimals, percentages, and rates.
• Distinguish between a numerator, denominator, and quotient.
• Convert data from one set of measures to another.
• Convert data to another unit of measure.
• Define patient census.
• Calculate inpatient census.
• Use various formulas to calculate census averages.
• Describe the general formula for computing a rate.
• Calculate occupancy percentages.
• Explain how clinical unit percentages are calculated.
• Explain the formulae in which a leave of absence is included for statistical purposes.
• Calculate the average length of stay for various types of patients.
• Identify deaths excluded in gross and net death rates.
• Compute hospital mortality rates.
• Describe how material and obstetrical data is reported.
• Calculate obstetrical data.
• Identify data included in a hospital autopsy rate.
• Calculate autopsy rates.

Instructions

Step 1:  Read the following scenario:

Hospitals collect data about both inpatients and outpatients on a daily basis. Statistics are used to monitor daily, weekly, and monthly trends.  As one of the members of the Quality Committee, you are being asked to prepare a presentation to explain the hospital statistics that are most frequently analyzed at your organization.  

 Step 2:  Through professional research and your own personal work experience, address the following items and create an 8- to 10-slide PowerPoint presentation using one of the following points as your focus of research:

• Define the main types of statistics used within the healthcare field
• What statistical analysis will you be using for your presentation
• Why did you choose this particular method for presenting your data

• Topics:
  • Inpatient Census and forecasting an annual census
  • Length of Stay and forecasting this annually
  • Hospital Death rate and forecasting this annually
  • Hospital Infection rate and forecasting this annually

Step 3: Compile your research and create a professional slideshow that adheres to APA guidelines. Your presentation must include the following:

• 8-10 slides
• Title slide (not included in 8-10 slide count)
• Reference/works cited slide (not included in 8-10 slide count)
• Notes provided within the notes section of each slide
• Proper APA, in-text support on each slide and within the notes section
• At least three outside scholarly sources

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