Assignment Guide for the
HS 312 - Unit 9 Assignment
Statistical Analyses for Organizational Decision-Making in Healthcare
Grading Criteria
Topics to Study
Suggested Resources
Part 1: Student has applied analytical results to facilitate decision-making.
Data display, power point, and dashboards
Unit 8 Reading: Reimers, M. (2014). Leveraging business intelligence to make better decisions: Part I. The Journal of Medical Practice Management, 29(5), 327–30.
Supplemental: Wakeling, S., Clough, P., Wyper, J., & Balmain, A. (2015). Graph Literacy and Business Intelligence: Investigating User Understanding of Dashboard Data Visualizations. Business Intelligence Journal, 20(4), 8-19.
Part 2: Student has recommended organizational action based on knowledge obtained from data exploration and mining.
Exploratory data analysis versus data mining
Unit 8 Reading: Chen, H., Chiang, Roger H. L., & Storey, Veda C. (2012). Business intelligence and analytics: From big data to big impact. MIS Quarterly, 36(4), 1165–1188.
Supplemental:
· Exploratory Data Analysis: “Chapter 3” in Discovering Knowledge in Data by Larose and Larose (2014)
· Data Mining: “Chapter 1” in Discovering Knowledge in Data by Larose and Larose (2014
Part 3: Student has analyzed clinical data to identify trends that demonstrate quality, safety, and effectiveness of healthcare.
Descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation, ranges, and percentiles)
Inferential statistics (T-tests, ANOVA, regression analysis, reliability, and validity); Epidemiological applications
Unit 1 Reading: Read pages 29–78 in Statistics in Plain English.
Unit 2 Reading:
· Statistics in Plain English
· Chapter 9: “t Tests”
· Chapter 10: “One-Way Analysis of Variance”
· Chapter 13: “Regression”
· SPSS Statistics for Dummies
· Part 1: “Getting Started with SPSS” (pages 1–42)
Unit 5 Reading:
· Statistics in Plain English
· Chapter 10: “One-Way Analysis of Variance” (Review as needed)
· Chapter 11: “Factorial Analysis of Variance”
· Chapter 12: “Repeated-Measures Analysis of Variance”
· SPSS Statistics for Dummies
· Part 1: “Getting Started with SPSS” (pages 260–262)
Part 4: Student has evaluated administrative reports using appropriate software
Statistical software
Management Information Systems
Administrative Reports versus Data Sets
Unit 8 Reading: Ivan, Mihaela & Velicanu, Manole (2015). Healthcare industry improvement with business intelligence. Informatica Economica, 19(2), 81–89.
Part 5: Student has interpreted inferential statistics.
Inferential statistics (T-tests, ANOVA, regression analysis, reliability, and validity)
Computerized statistical packages (SPSS & SAS)
Unit 7 Reading:
· SPSS Statistics for Dummies
· Part 1: “Getting Started with SPSS” (pages 1–42) [This was assigned in the previous unit. Please review as necessary.]
· Part 2: “Getting Data in and out of SPSS” (pages 43–112)[Please review as needed.]
· Chapter 15: “Showing Relationships between Continuous Dependent and Categorical Independent Variables” (pages 235–247) [This chapter directly relates to this unit’s Assignment.]
Part 6: Student has analyzed statistical data for decision making.
Data reporting of statistical healthcare data and presentation techniques
Unit 8 Reading: Warner, Diana. (2013). IG 101: Developing clinical business intelligence. Journal of AHIMA. Retrieved from http://journal.ahima.org/2013/12/18/ig-101-developing-clinical-business-intelligence
Supplemental: “Chapter 11” in Calculating and Reporting Healthcare Statistics by Horton (2012)
Part 7: Student has planned adherence to Institutional Review Board (IRB) processes and policies.
National guidelines regarding human-subjects research (IRB process)
Research protocol data management
Please note:
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Assignment Guide for the
HS 312
-
Unit 9 Assignment
Statistical Analyses for Organizational Decision
-
Making in Healthcare
Assignment Guide for the
HS 312 - Unit 9 Assignment
Statistical Analyses for Organizational Decision-Making in Healthcare