“Health Care Research, Analysis, and Utilization Scenarios

Review the “Health Care Research, Analysis, and Utilization Scenarios” document and select either the Hospital or Home Care scenario to utilize in the assignment. Additionally, review the “Health Care Research Statistical Data Set” resource and complete a written analysis (500-750 words) of the statistical data that addresses the following:

1.    Review the case study scenario selected and analyze the data set results by providing your interpretation of the research data presented.

2.    Discuss what makes a test statistically significant.

3.    Demonstrate data literacy by providing a rationale for the indicated statistical tests that best applies to the data set provided.

4.    Discuss what the accepted confidence intervals are in health care research, why they are useful, and why it is important to organize, prioritize, and report statistical results.

Hospital

Type of care provided: A hospital is an acute care, short-term stay, emergency medical center that also includes medical departments such as surgical, obstetrics, infectious disease, radiology, laboratory, and mental health.

You are a member of the continuous quality improvement team of a medium-sized hospital. The director of your team has been summoned to an executive team meeting in an effort determine why an unusual number of readmissions for the influenza outbreak are occurring at this hospital. During the discussions, the director of nursing provides her thoughts regarding why patients may be eligible for discharge before they are fully treated. She states that many of the readmissions are for a secondary case of noninfluenza-related pneumonia. The director returns to the team and asks you to investigate if this is the actual cause for readmissions or if other factors such as alternate respiratory manifestations may be causing the issue. Once the cause is determined, a plan to implement a quality improvement action plan will need to be developed.

Utilize the frequency, means, average stay, time to discharge compared to date of readmission to