If you do well in this course, you will be able to:
- Apply policies and procedures for the collection and statistical applications of health care data.
- Compute and analyze descriptive statistics widely used in the health care field.
- Compute, compile, and display information using a database software product.
- Differentiate between descriptive and inferential statistics.
- Display health data using a graphics software product using tables, charts, and graphs (such as histograms).
- Identify how statistics are used in healthcare.
- Define hospital-related healthcare statistical terms.
- Describe statistical and data presentation techniques.
- Calculate data for departmental operations such as staffing levels and productivity and budget variances and case mix.
- Differentiate among the various types of research methods.
- Understand the purpose and control of an Institutional Review Board.
- Recognize the basic concepts of data analytics.
- Describe the shape of a distribution and interpret distribution curves.
Course Topics:
- Nature of Data
- Use of Data
- Rates and Percentages
- Presentation of Data
- Vital Statistics
- Health Care Database Use
- Health Care Comparative Statistical Reports
- Identification of the Relationships of the Measures of Central Tendency
- Distribution Curves
- Standard deviation