Healthcare Statistics and Reporting

[johnny depp23]

Howdy, Gang.

I was wondering if any of you have ever taken this class - Healthcare Statistics and Reporting? If so, was it easy or hard? I have a choice of this class or a regular math STATS course. I'm assuming this class would be pretty easy. Here is a brief (well it's kinda long) description of what the class entails:

-Course modules must be completed in a linear fashion with one module building on the next.

Introduction to statistics

Basic math review for rates, ratios, percentages, proportion and rounding

Patient census to include inpatient census, daily inpatient census, inpatient service days and discharge days

Percentage of occupancy, bed occupancy, and bed turnover rate

Length of stay, average length of stay, total length of stay

Death rates to include gross and net, postoperative death rates, anesthesia, maternal, fetal, infant, and cancer death rates

Autopsy rates to include the different hospital autopsy rates and coroner�s cases for autopsy

Nosocomial and postoperative infection rates, C-section rates, consultation rates and other miscellaneous rates

Statistics calculated in the HIM department to include productivity, staffing, unit cost, case-mix index and other departmental rates

Measures of central tendency to include mean, median, mode, range, variance and standard deviation

Categories of data and data display techniques such as bar, pie, line graphs; histograms, frequency polygons, pictograms, and scatter diagrams

Basic research principles, steps in research process, various data collection techniques, types of samples,

Institutional Review Board purpose and role

Required reporting for vital statistics and registries such as Cancer Registry, head and spinal cord/traumatic head injury registry and other miscellaneous health care registries

II. Domain: Health Statistics, Biomedical Research, and Quality Management

Subdomain: Healthcare Statistics and Research

Abstract and maintain data for clinical indices/databases/registries.

Collect, organize, and present data for quality management, utilization management, risk management, and other related studies.

Compute and interpret healthcare statistics.

Apply Institutional Review Board (IRB) processes and policies.

Use specialized databases to meet specific organization needs such as medical research and disease registries.-

Hopefully somebody out there will be able to give me some info regarding this class.

Thanks, gang

[Altra, BSN, RN]

Statistics classes are a hell of a lot easier these days, with the use of spreadsheets, than they were back in the day when you actually had to do the math.

[nola1202]

I would find that a lot more interesting than the traditional stats, but if you're interested in pure research, maybe take both?