A graph that uses proportions similar to that of the pieces of a pie to represent pieces of a whole.
What is Pie Chart?
100
Unit of measurement used to count patients on each day.
What is Patient Care Unit (PCU)?
100
This research can describe events, persons, activities, processes without the use of numerical data.
What is Qualitative research?
100
Massive amounts of information that can be interpreted by analytics to provide an overview of trends or patterns.
What is Big Data?
100
Ways to measure performance in quality improvement, can be financial, productivity, or performance.
What is indicators?
200
A graph that uses a line to connect a series of points to display trends overtime.
What is Line Graph?
200
The number of inpatients present at the census-taking time each day, including any inpatients who were admitted after the previous census was taken as well.
What is Daily Inpatient Census?
200
This type of research uses numbers to describe a study including using comparisons of the population and analysis to describe the results.
What is Quantitative Research?
200
These can be described as descriptive, predictive, or prescriptive and are used as ways to draw conclusions about information.
What is types of Data Analytics?
200
Tools used to report a variety of quality metrics into one concise report.
What is dashboards/scorecards?
300
Graph used to display nominal or ordinal frequency distributions in categories.
What is Bar Graph?
300
Sum of all the inpatient service days for the days during a specific period of time.
What is Total Inpatient Service Days?
300
A statement of the predicted relationship among variables in measurable terms.
What is hypothesis?
300
Data that can be accessed as it comes into a computer system.
What is real-time analysis?
300
These can be either external or internal and are who you want to focus on during quality improvement.
What is customers?
400
A graph used to display interval or ratio data as numbers or percentages in a series of bars.
What is a Histogram?
400
The average number of inpatients present in the hospital each day for a given period of time.
What is Average Daily Inpatient Census?
400
Should be an adequate representation of the population in which the researcher wishes to generalize during research.
What is sample size?
400
An organization wide framework for managing information throughout its life cycle.
What is Information Governance?
400
A systematic comparison of the organizations measurements against another organizations measurements using the national or regional standards.
What is benchmark?
500
A graph that displays the linear relationship among factors.
What is a Scatter Diagram?
500
The number of patients present in the facility at a particular point in time.
What is inpatient census?
500
Information obtained through research, can be gathered through observations, surveys and interviews.
What is data collection?
500
A collection of data that reflects all the aspects of the hospitals operations used in reporting in analysis.
What is a Clinical Data Warehouse?
500
A data collection tool that records and compiles observations or occurrences.