Healthcare Statistics Ch 1

Hospice

Provide care and psychosocial support to terminally ill patients and their families. May be either home or inpatient.

Home health (HH)

Provide care for the elderly, disabled an convalescent patients in their homes. These agencies keep statistics to determine the types of services used by their patients and their outcomes

Vital statistics are a primary data source from information (T/F).

True

The National Center for Health Statistics keeps statistics on:

Vital statistics, such as births, deaths, and fetal deaths in the 50 states and US - owned territories.

Identify Primary Data Source or Secondary Data Source: 1. Health insurance data pulled from national census 2. Hospital census 3. Productivity reports pulled from patient visit report 4. Patient health record 5. State vital statistics 6. Tumor registry 7. Hospital disease index

1. Secondary 2. Primary 3. Secondary 4. Primary 5. Primary 6. Secondary 7. Secondary

Nursing facility

A comprehensive them for long-term care facilities that provide nursing care and related services on a 24-hour basis for residents requiring medical, nursing, or rehabilitative care.

Mean

A measure of central tendency that is determined by calculating the arithmetic average of the observations in a frequency distribution.

Inpatient

A patient who is provided with room, board, and continuous general nursing services in an area of an acute care facility where patients generally stay at least overnight.

Outpatient

A patient who receives ambulatory care services ina hospital-based clinic or department.

Visit

A single encounter with a healthcare professional that includes all the services supplied during the encounter.

Managed Care Organization (MCO)

A type of healthcare organization that delivers medical care and manages all aspects of the care or the payment for care by limiting providers of care, discounting payment to providers,of care, or limiting access to care.

What is the correct sequence to go from obtaining knowledge to use of that knowledge for decision making?

Data -> Information -> Facts -> Improved understanding -> Better decision making

Secondary Data Source

Data derived from the primary patient record, such as an index or database.

Vital statistics

Data related to births, deaths, marriages, and fetal deaths.

Which of the following is NOT a primary source of statistics? a. health record b. vital statistics c. hospital census d. disease and operation index

Disease and operation index

Descriptive statistics makes inferences or a best guess about a larger group of data by drawing conclusions from a smaller group of data. (T/F)

False. Inferential statistics.

Hospital

Healthcare entity that has an organized medical staff and permanent facilities that include inpatient beds and continuous medical and nursing services and that provide diagnostic and therapeutic services for patients, as well as overnight accommodations and nutritional services.

Inpatient census

Healthcare facility census, which is the count of patients present at a specific time and in a particular place.

Which user of statistics has the primary job of supporting terminally ill patients and their families?

Hospice

Research

Investigation or experimentation aimed at the discovery and interpretation of facts, revision of accepted theories or laws in the light of new facts, or practical applications of such new or revised theories or laws; the collecting of information about a particular subject.

Primary data source

Record developed by healthcare professionals in the process of providing patient care.

Inferential statistics

Statistics that are used to make inferences from a smaller group of data to a large one.

encounter

The direct personal contact between a patient and a physician or the other person authorized by state licensure and, if applicable , by medical staff bylaws to order or furnish healthcare services for the diagnosis or treatment of the patient.

census

a count of patients present at a specific time in a specific place

sample

a small part (a subset) of a larger group of data (a population).

Which of the following is considered to be a primary source of information? a. The inpatient census b. Vital statistics collected by the NCHS c. The health record d. All of the above e. B and c only

d. All of the above.

descriptive statistics

describe what the data show about the characteristics of a sample. They tell us information about a particular population.

To be reliable, statistical information must:

have some consistency

The CDC is the lead agency that:

is responsible for protecting the health of the people of the United States.

The term statistics

more broadly defined as a branch of mathematics concerned with collecting, organizing, summarizing, and analyzing data.

Ambulatory care

outpatient care.

Statistic

refers to a number computed from a larger collection of numbers which collaboratively constitute a sample of data -- for instance, the average value (or mean) of a variable belonging to a sample of data.

To be relevant

refers to the applicability of the statistics.

In order to be useful, the figures used in statistics must be:

relevant and reliable