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Analytical Methods of Healthcare Leaders - D514 . . . . . .1. In conversations with her patients, a physical therapist notices that patients w
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ho are on Workman's Compensation and have supportive supervisors, eager for th
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em to return to work, have more positive outcomes in rehabilitation than those pa
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tients whose supervisors have a negative attitude toward their employee's injury:
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. insisting they not return to work until they are at 100% because if anything less th
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ey are "useless to the job".
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What type of test could the therapist use to see if these two factors have a measu
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rable relationship?: Linear regression
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2. Data analysts at a large metropolitan hospital need to determine risk factors ass
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ociated with readmission within 30 days via the hospital's emergency room among
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patients with COPD. The variables of interest include age, gender,
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. race/ethnicity, insurance status, and family support. Which statistical tech- nique . . . . . . . . .
should be used?: Regression analysis
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3. Several community health centers across a rural state are gathering data on th
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eir pre- .
diabetic patients and using A1c levels as a baseline measurement to include patie
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nts in a research project. Three different interventions will be applied.
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One group of patients will receive a special diet to follow; the second group will work
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with physical therapists on a regular exercise program; the third group will follow
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he diet and engage in the exercise.
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Which statistical test will be appropriate to use to determine which treatment is m
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ost effective in controlling pre-diabetes?: ANOVA
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4. A hospital CFO is analyzing the cost benefits of using the patient reminder syst
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em, which was implemented over a year ago, to see if the automated system result
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s in less missed appointments ("no-shows").
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She is comparing quarterly reports from this past year on volume of patients who d
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d not show up to their appointments, to the volume of patients of
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the previous year, who did not show up to their appointments, to see if the autom
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ated system has proven effective. She is considering other variables as she revie
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ws the data, but is primarily analyzing the number of "no-
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show" patients from last year's quarterly reports to this year's.: time series
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5. There are two standard treatments for children with ADHD who display a s . . . . . . . . . . . .
pecific set of characteristics. One treatment is a cognitive behavioral interventi
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on, and the other is a dietary and biomedical intervention. Both treatments hav
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e equally strong clinical evidence supporting their efficacy.
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A researcher proposes a comparison of the two interventions to determine
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which is preferable. The children will be randomized to one of two groups: half of th
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e children will receive the cognitive behavioral intervention and the other half of th
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e children will receive the dietary and biomedical intervention. Which test is appro
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priate to determining the preferable treatment?: Cross-sectional
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6. The vice president, CMO, and Operations Team collected data on resources used
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by patients who have undergone coronary bypass and the length of stays for a define
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d population of patients who received CABG surgery. Since the raw data is complex
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. to discuss and evaluate, the team will use descriptive statistics to analyze the data t
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o support their decisions for recommendations. Which of the following descriptive
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statistics could prove the most useful?: The mean (average) length of stay and
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The mean number of providers seeing each patient each day
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7. Operates through CDC; the National Health Care Surveys are designed to answ . . . . . . . . . . .
er key questions of interest to health care policy makers, public health professio
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nals, and researchers.: National Healthcare Survey
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8. Operates through the CDC: data on birth, death, marriages, divorces, and fetal
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deaths.: National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
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9. Incidence and prevalence of diseases, survival statistics, high- . . . . . . .
risk popula- tions, trends over time. Data gathered from medical records, surveys,
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