VOCABULARY WORDS
CHARTS AND GRAPHS
AUTOPSY RATES
DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS
PATIENT CARE AND STATISTICAL DATA
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Data that fall into categories.
What are discrete variables?
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Used to display data from one or more variables; may be drawn vertically or horizontally.
What are bar charts?
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Total inpatients autopsied for a given period ---------------------------------------------------- X 100 Total number of inpatient deaths for the same period
What is the gross autopsy rate?
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The sum of all scores in a frequency distribution divided by the number of scores.
What is the mean?
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Total number of inpatient deaths (including NBs) for a given period --------------------------------------- X 100 Total number of discharges, including A & C and NB deaths, for the same period
What is the Gross death rate?
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A particular type of ratio in which x is a portion of the whole (x+y). The numerator is always included in the denominator.
What is a proportion?
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An easily understood chart in which the sizes of the slices of the pie show a proportional contribution of each part. They can be used to show the component of a single group or variable.
What is a pie chart?
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Total # of autopsies on IP deaths for a period ----------------------------------------------------- X 100 Total number of IP death minus autopsied corner's or medical examiners' cases for the same period
What is the net autopsy rate?
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The midpoint of frequency distribution and falls in the ordinal scale of measurement. It is the point at which 50 percent of the observation fall above and 50 percent fall below.
What is the median?
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Total number of inpatient deaths (including NBs) minus deaths<48 hours for a given period -------------------------------------------------------- X 100 Total number of discharges, (including A & C and NB deaths) minus deaths<48 hours for the same period
What is the Net death rate?
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A method of grouping patients according to a predefined set of characteristics.
What is a case mix?
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May be used to display time trends; can show trends or patterns of quantitative data over time; the x-axis shows the unite of time from left to right, and the y-axis measure the values of the variable being plotted.
What is a line graph?
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Total number of hospital autopsies for a given period ------------------------------------------------------------- X 100 Total number of deaths of hospital patients whose bodies were available for autopsy for the same period
What is the hospital autopsy rate?
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The simplest measure of central tendency.
What is the mode?
300
Total number of NB deaths for a given period ----------------------------------------------------- X 100 Total number of NB discharges (including deaths) for the same period
What is the Newborn death rate?
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The professional, direct personal contact between a patient and a physician or other person who is authorized by state licensure law and, if applicable, by medical staff bylaws, to order or furnish healthcare services for the diagnostic or treatment of the patient; face-to-face contact between a patient and provider who has primary responsibility for assessing and treating the condition of the patient at a given contact and exercise.
What is an encounter?
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Also called scatter plots or scatter diagrams, are used when one want to determine if there is a relationship between two variables, such as charges and LOS.
What are scatter charts?
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Total number of autopsies on NB Death for a given period ----------------------------------------------------- X100 Total number of NB deaths for the same period
What is the Newborn autopsy rate?
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The simplest measure of spread.
What is the range?
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Total number of intermediate and late fetal deaths for a given period ------------------------------------------------------------ X 100 Total number of live births plus total number of intermediate and late fetal deaths for the same period
What is the Fetal death rate?
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NOMINAL, ORDINAL, INTERVAL, OR RATIO
What are the four scales of measurement?
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An alternative to a histogram; is a graph of frequency distribution, but in line form rather than bar form and is intended for internal or ratio data.
What is a frequency polygon?
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Total number of autopsies on intermediate and late fetal deaths for a given period ------------------------------------------------------- X100 Total number of intermediate and late fetal deaths for the same period
What is the fetal autopsy rate?
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The average of the squared deviations from the mean of frequency distribution.
What is the variance?
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Total number of direct maternal deaths for a given period -------------------------------------------------------- X 100 Total number of maternal (OB) discharges, including deaths, for the same period
What is the Maternal death rate?
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