Indicates the number of patients present in the healthcare facility at a particular point of time.
What is Inpatient census
100
Healthcare organizations that conduct research on human subjects are required to have?
What is Institutional Review Board (IRB)
100
The square root of the variance
What is standard deviation (SD)
100
Any single, separate, systematic process upon or within the body that can be complete in itself.
What is surgical procedure
100
A unit of performance defined by management in quantitative standards.
What is productivity
200
Unit of measure denoting the services received by one inpatient in one 24 hour period
What is inpatient service day
200
Statistics that describe the data.
What is descriptive statistics
200
Three measures of central tendency
What is mean, median, and mode.
200
One or more surgical procedures performed at one time for one patient via common approach or for a common purpose.
What is surgical operation
200
Assessment of a department's financial transactions to identify differences between the budget amount and the actual amount of a line item.
What is variance analysis
300
Total inpatient service days for a period excluding newborns divided by total number of days in a period
What is average daily inpatient census
300
Statistics that all the researcher to make inferences about the population characteristics from samples characteristics.
What is Inferential statistics
300
Considers the spread of distribution, shows how wide the observations are spread out around the measure of central tendency.
What is measures of variation
300
A medical condition that arises during an inpatient hospitalization
What is complication
300
A plan that converts the organization's goals and objectives into targets for revenue and spending.
What is a budget
400
The sum of inpatient bed count days for each of the days during a specified period of time.
What is total bed count days
400
The two types of research.
What is basic research and applied research
400
Measures the extent of a linear relationship between two variables.
What is correlation
400
Counted as one delivery and two live births.
What is the count for the delivery of live-born twins
400
A method of grouping patients according to a predefined set of characteristics.
What is case-mix
500
Patients who are moved from one PCU to another within the facility.
What is intrahospital transfers
500
Horizontal stretching of a frequency distribution to one side or the other.
What is skewness
500
Induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures.
What is iatrogenic
500
A measurement of the quality, utilization, and cost of medical resources provided by physicians or groups that is made by employers, third party-payers......