Hospitals collect data about both inpatients and outpatients on a daily basis. Statistics are used to monitor daily, weekly, and monthly trends. As one of the members of the Quality Committee, you are being asked to prepare a presentation to explain the hospital statistics that are most frequently analyzed at your organization.

• Define the main types of statistics used within the healthcare field
• What statistical analysis will you be using for your presentation
• Why did you choose this particular method for presenting your data

• Topics:
  • Inpatient Census and forecasting an annual census
  • Length of Stay and forecasting this annually
  • Hospital Death rate and forecasting this annually
  • Hospital Infection rate and forecasting this annually