1. You have a managerial position in healthcare, and you are responsible for the oversight of quality...
Question:
1. You have a managerial position in healthcare, and you are responsible for the oversight of quality of care. You are asked to identify information for the following, using data from your Electronic Medical Record, for each of your hospital units:
• Readmission rate
• Number of beds
• Specialty of physicians
• Temperature in each patient room as measured daily
a. What is the level of measurement for each of thesevariables?
b. What statistics would you use to summarize each of these variables?
c. Make a list of the appropriate type(s) of plots to visualize each of these variables? (There may be more than one appropriate plot for some of these variables)
d. What type of plot (one plot) would you use to show (i) the readmission rate with (ii the size of the department (number of available beds)?
Auditing a risk based approach to conducting a quality audit
ISBN: 978-1133939153
9th edition
Authors: Karla Johnstone, Audrey Gramling, Larry Rittenberg