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Knowledge Activity: Applied Data Analytics III $($Informatics$)$

Prerequisites

Use of Microsoft Excel" is required to complete this activity

This activity is the third activity in a sequential $5-$activity series. Completion of the acthities below is required to successfully complete this activity.

Orientation to Data Analytics I

Applied Data Analytics $8$

Student instructions

If you have questions about this activity, please contact your instructor for assistance

You will review a de$-$identified patient chart to complete this activity. Your instruction has provided you with a link to the Applied Data Analytics In $($Informatics$)$ activity. Clidk. on $2$: Launch EHR to review the patient chart and begin this activity.

Refer to the patient chart and any suggested resources to compliete this activity.

Document your answers directly on this activity document as you complete the act wityWhen you are finished, you will save this activity document to your device and upl oad this activity document with your answers to your Learning Management System $($W$)5.$

The activity

Recently, the local paper did an article on the nation's high rate of cesarean section deliveries. The journalist featured interviews with Shoreline Birth Center doctors and patients who eicher perform or had undergone cesarean sections. The Birth Center felt that the press would negatively impact their bottom line and were hopeful that an analysis of birth data would show Shoreline does not perform more cesarean section deliveries than the national average.

However, Shoreline's birth data revealed a cesarean section rate of $34\%,21\%$ higher than the national average of $31\mathrm{.}9\%.$ The medical director believes that the Eirth center has a higher cesarean section rate because they are the area's only high$-$risk birth center. being a high$-$risk: birth center means that Shoreline receives a hig related to the high$-$risk births and that ce that Shoreline's high rate of cesarean section is re farnilies. Shoreline's Public Relations section results in a safer birth experience for thesarean may be related to a high rate of is happy to hear that Shoreline's high rate of cesarean how that shoreline is the sofect place to