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A number computed from a larger collection of numbers which collectively constitute a sample of data
What is statistic
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Days compiled on the patient after he or she has been discharged from the hospital discharge date-admission date
What is Discharge Days
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Total nosocomial infection X 100 __________________________ Discharges (including deaths)
What is Hospital-Acquired/Nosocomial Infection Rate
100
The value that occurs with the highest frequency
What is mode
100
An occurrence that resulted, or could have resulted, in life-threatening injuries to patients, medical staff, or employees.
What is sentinel event
200
Health record; vital statistics; census Contains most of the health facts about patients
What is primary data
200
Total length of stay (discharge days) ______________________________ Total discharges (including deaths)
What is Average Length of Stay (ALOS)
200
Use operations not procedures
What is postoperative infection rate
200
Measures the extent of a linear relations between two variables and can be described as strong, moderate, or weak and positive or negative
What is correlation
200
the problem is usually the system, variation is constant, data must support PI activities and decisions, support must come from the top down, the organization must have a shared vision, staff and management must be involved in the process, setting goals is critical, effective communication is important and success should be celebrated
What is the fundamental principles of performance improvement
300
Nominal, Ordinal, Ratio, Interval
What is four types of categorical data
300
# of times it happened _____________________________ # of times it could have happened
What is an important formula that is good in many different situations
300
Total(sum) annual compensation ___________________________ Total(sum) annual productivity
What is unit labor cost
300
Six major steps: Defining the problem, reviewing the literature, designing the research, collecting the data, analyzing the data, drawing conclusions
What is research process
300
Establishing ground rules for the team, stating the teams purpose or mission, identifying customers and their requirements, documenting current processes and identifying barriers, benchmarking, collecting current process data, analyzing process data, process redesign, and recommendations for process change
What is nine elements of team success
400
A unit of measure denoting the services received by one inpatient in one 24-hour period
What is inpatient service day
400
# of inpatient deaths (including NB) X 100 ___________________________________ # of discharges (including deaths)
What is Death (Mortality) Rate
400
A plan that converts the organization's gals and objectives into targets for revenue and spending
What is budget
400
States that the difference between two population means is zero
What is null hypothesis
400
Comparing organizations performance against external standards
What is benchmarking
500
total inpatient service days X 100 __________________________ bed count X number of days in the period
What is bed occupancy ratio/percentage
500
total inpatient autopsies X 100 _________________________ total inpatient deaths
What is Gross Autopsy Rate
500
Variance ( Actual amount spend-Amount budgeted) X 100 ______________________________________________ Budget
What is Variance formula
500
A term used for the massive amounts of information that can be interpreted by analytics to provide an overview of trends or patterns
What is big data
500
Review the medication formulary and make recommendations to the medical staff
What is Pharmacy and therapeutics committee
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