HCS 493 UP Data Analytics for Healthcare Managers Worksheet

 

 

Select an additional 3 terms from the list of statistical terms below. You will research the term using your textbook or internet sources, provide a definition of the term in your own words, and illustrate a scenario that shows how this term applies to health care or is used by a health care manager.

• Data analytics
• Descriptive statistics
• Inferential statistics
• Population
• Primary data
• Secondary data
• Quantitative data
• Qualitative data
• Sample
• Variable
• Data quality

 

Statistical term

Definition of term   in your own words (15 to 45 words)

Illustrate a   scenario in how this term applies to health care or is used by a health care   manager (15 to 75 words) 

 

Data mapping

 

Data scrubbing

 

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*Remember to review all terms found in your textbook this week as this worksheet does not cover all terms presented in the textbook.

Mathematical Terms

Select an additional 3 terms from the list of mathematical terms below. You will research the terms using your textbook or internet sources, provide a definition of the term in your own words, and illustrate a scenario that shows how this term applies to health care or is used by a health care manager.

• Quotient
• Ratio
• Rate
• Proportion
• Frequencies
• Frequency distributions
• Outliers
• Interquartile range
• Variance
• Standard deviation

 

Statistical term

Definition of term   in your own words (15 to 45 words)

Illustrate a   scenario in how this term applies to health care or is used by a health care   manager (15 to 75 words) 

 

Frequency distributions

 

Variance

 

*Remember to review all terms found in your textbook this week as this worksheet does not cover all terms presented in the textbook.

Part B 

Review the table provided on the admission and discharge rates from a local hospital within a 24-hour period.

Admission and Discharge Rates for Local Hospital (24-hour period)

 

Admissions and   discharges in hospital

Jan. 1, 2017

Jan. 2, 2017

Jan. 3, 2017

 

Admissions

896

649

1,503

 

Discharges

764

543

672

Answer the prompts using the table provided.

• Identify the information above that represents a data set. How do you know this a data set?
• Identify the information above that represents a database. How do you know this is a database?
• What was the discharge rate for Jan. 2, 2017?
• What was the admission rate for Jan. 3, 2017?
• Which day had the highest percent of patients discharged within the 24-hour period?