Is there any difference between gender groups in terms of NAFLD status? Use crosstabulation with proportions in your answer. Would you be able to notice a significant difference in terms of diabetes duration and patients’ NAFLD status?

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Applied Biostatistics

Paper Assignment-1

 

Answer the following questions in a Word document, using the provided datasheet (You may use SPSS or MS Excel for your analyses):

 

a.  Write a statistical summary of patients’ demographical characteristics (i.e., age, gender, marital and deprivation status). (2 marks)

 

b.  Prepare a summary report of baseline health status of the included subjects (i.e., diabetes duration, body weight or BMI, drug use durations, smoking and alcohol consumption). Report appropriate measures of central tendency and dispersion with proper visual illustrations. (4 marks)

 

c.  Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a serious health problem that affects many individuals.

    i. Is there any difference between gender groups in terms of NAFLD status? Use crosstabulation with proportions in your answer. (2 marks)

    ii. Would you be able to notice a significant difference in terms of diabetes duration and patients’ NAFLD status? (2 marks)

Use metacognition in your post to your peers. Provide at least (2) financial management peer-reviewed journal articles to support your rationale. Identify if your classmate followed the Sample Paper Template and used APA (2020) format.

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Discussion Question (DQ) 1 and Response to Peers – Module 1

Download the “Sample Paper Template” located in Module 1. Use this format for all written papers in the course.

Health Financial Management offers a framework to help managers simplify and improve their management decisions.

  • Use the NSU online library or Google Scholar to locate at least (3) financial management peer-reviewed journal articles.
  • In your initial post, use critical thinking skills to analyze how financial management offers a map for clinicians who assume leadership roles in healthcare organizations.
  • Write a 500-word initial post of 2-3 paragraphs in APA (2020) format.
  • Then, respond to two students with a 250-word post in APA (2020) format.
  • Use metacognition in your post to your peers. Provide at least (2) financial management peer-reviewed journal articles to support your rationale.
  • Identify if your classmate followed the Sample Paper Template and used APA (2020) format.

[HINT: There are several financial management journal websites in the Syllabus].

What CPT coding system? what are its main categories?

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W6: Interactive Activity

Purpose

The purpose of this Activity is to demonstrate your understanding of the concepts learnt readings/ educational videos.

Action Items

  • What CPT coding system? what are its main categories?

Submission Instructions

Complete and submit this assignment according to your professor’s instructions.

Based on Theranos Case, What lessons do you take away from the case?

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Theranos: A Case Study

Based on Theranos Case, What lessons do you take away from the case?

What lessons do you take away from the case,

  1. as an investor?
  2. as an entrepreneur?
  3. as an employee of a startup?

What are the different types of leases? How can a lease be better than buying the item with capital? What factors do you consider when evaluating a lease?

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Leasing Decisions

Businesses generally own fixed (capital) assets. However, it the ability to use buildings and equipment that is important to the business, not their ownership. One way to obtain the use of capital assets is to lease them.

Address the following requirements:

  • What are the different types of leases?
  • How can a lease be better than buying the item with capital?
  • What factors do you consider when evaluating a lease?

Embed course material concepts, principles, and theories (which require supporting citations) in your initial response along with at least one scholarly, peer-reviewed journal article. Keep in mind that these scholarly references can be found in the Saudi Digital Library by conducting an advanced search specific to scholarly references. Use Saudi Electronic University academic writing standards and APA style guidelines.

Briefly describe your role in the internship? What differences have you noticed as you have transitioned from your role as student to intern?

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Internship First Discussion

Student should initiate a post and reply to at least 3 of their colleagues as this will open more interaction and expression among students as each student has his/her own unique experience

First discussion should include the following questions:

1-Briefly describe your role in the internship?

2-What differences have you noticed as you have transitioned from your role as student to intern?

3-What new knowledge or skill did you learn since the beginning of the internship?

Explain the epidemiology, pathophysiology, types, risk factors, symptoms, signs, and prevention of two common diseases in Saudi Arabia.

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Introduction to Disease

Explain the epidemiology, pathophysiology, types, risk factors, symptoms, signs, and prevention of two common diseases in Saudi Arabia.

Evaluate the health, safety and risk management policies, procedures and practices within the work setting. Identify areas of policies, procedures and practices that need improvement to ensure safety and protection in the work setting.

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DISCUSSION ESSAY

5.2 Evaluate the health, safety and risk management policies, procedures and practices within the work setting.

5.3 Identify areas of policies, procedures and practices that need improvement to ensure safety and protection in the work setting.

5.4 Recommend changes to policies, procedures and practices that ensure safety and protection in the work setting.

5.2 – 5.4 The student should write a report in which they evaluate the health, safety and risk management policies, procedures and practices within the work setting and identify areas that need improvement to ensure safety and protection in the work setting, recommending changes that could be made.

How has current legislative and/or economic policy impacted the work you are able to do with the individuals you serve? How important is licensure and/or certification to the work you do?

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Informational Interview

There is tremendous value in learning from and networking with community rehabilitation practitioners on “the front lines.” New helping professionals often have many questions, concerns, and anxieties that can be uniquely addressed by individuals in the field. Based on a students’ own professional aspirations (field of choice, i.e. substance abuse, vocational rehabilitation, counseling, peer support, etc.); students will select one professional to meet with and interview in person or virtually . While a list of potential agencies will be available to you, you will identify professionals practicing in your area of interest and will: (a) meet with the professional at their place of practice to learn more about the work they perform; (b) develop at least three (3) substantive questions to be asked of the professional that is directly related to the type of work they perform, and have the interviewee respond to additional questions; and lastly (c), you will write a paper that details the information you gathered and then critiques it (compares and contrasts) based on the information you learned in class and your general understanding of that professional position.

Your 5-page paper should be divided into 4 sections:

Overview of the professional setting and what types of services professionals in this setting provide.
Overview of the information you gathered from the individual you interviewed. This should be presented in a narrative fashion, not Q & A. You should also give a brief introduction to your interviewee, their credentials and professional role.
Critique (compare and contrast of the information gathered versus what you have learned in class and via readings)
Conclude your paper discussing whether or not this interaction has influenced your own professional goals and what you learned that you were previously unaware of by interacting with this professional.

Questions for your professional:

How has current legislative and/or economic policy impacted the work you are able to do with the individuals you serve?
How important is licensure and/or certification to the work you do?
Since you began this position, what has changed in the way individuals are served?
How has ethical practice played a role in your own professional development?
How relevant has cultural competency been to the type of services you are able to provide?
What are your views on research and its relationship to practice?

Briefly describe the problems of using the 6-Sigma framework to improve quality in Healthcare? Briefly describe the problems of using Lean to improve quality in Healthcare? Briefly describe how combining Lean and 6-Sigma is effective to improve quality in Healthcare.

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HMP-511 Midterm – Due 5/8

Section 1 – Short Answer  (30 points – 5 points per question)

  1. Describe how Bayesian statistics differs from more traditional methods that use the frequency of outcomes from large studies.
  2. Briefly describe the problems of using the 6-Sigma framework to improve quality in Healthcare? Briefly describe the problems of using Lean to improve quality in Healthcare? Briefly describe how combining Lean and 6-Sigma is effective to improve quality in Healthcare.
  3. The below figure shows a process to treat a patient in an ER. It consists of three stages: Triage, Treatment, and Checkout. Assume that a patient comes every 30 mins. There is no randomness in the patient arrival rate or the service rate.

 

 

Triage                             Treatment                      Checkout

(10 mins)                          (60 mins)                        (5 mins)

  • What is the Throughput time (Do not include any waiting time)
  • What is the Cycle time of the entire Process (i.e. how fast do patients come out of this system)
  • If there is any waiting in this system between stages please identify where a que will form.

 

  1. Assume you have simple queuing system that models patients arriving and being treated in an ER. This is a simple system with a single que (M/M/1).  A patient arrives on average every 20 minutes.  A patient is served on average every 15 minutes.
  • What is the Capacity Utilization of this Que
  • What is the Average total number of patients in this system
  • Describe why a discrete event simulation of this simple queuing system is more useful to an operations manager?
  1. You are the manager of a Surgi-Center that performs minor surgical cases. The Center has 4 operating rooms and, on average, each case takes 30 minutes to perform. After each case clean-up requires 30 minutes.  If the Center schedules its first case for 8:00 a.m., no cases are performed between 12:00 and 1:00 p.m., and the last case must be completed by 5:00, what is the daily capacity of the Center in cases?  If the clean-up is reduced to 25 minutes does this increase the daily capacity?  (If yes, what is the new capacity?) If the clean-up is reduced to 10 minutes does this increase the daily capacity?  (If yes, what is the new capacity?).

Discuss John Snow’s study of cholera in 1854 in the context of how the display of information effects the interpretation.  Discuss both the cause and effect data as illustrated in the bar graphs as well as the geographic location as shown in the maps of the problem.  (Hint – think about Tufte’s work and the slides I showed from his book).

 

Section 2 – Probability Analysis  (20 points)

1 – In class we discussed the probability of having cancer if your mammogram is positive using Bayesian methods.  See the posted slides and reading.  In class we discussed how to think about Bayesian methods using numbers.  The tree we discussed in class is shown below.

The above tree is based on the following assumptions:  The test is 80% accurate, the false-positive rate is 10%, and 1% of the patients tested have cancer.

A salesman is trying to sell your hospital a new mammogram that is 100% effective in detection.  When you look at the specification you notice that while the test accuracy has been increased, the false positive rate has increased to 15%.  When you question the salesman about this he claims this is not a problem because the test reliability has increased by 20% (from 80% to 100%) while the false positive rate has only increased 5% (from 10% to 15%), thus the probability that if your test is positive you have cancer is greater.  To determine if the salesman is correct solve the below tree with the new assumptions (i.e. 100% test accuracy, 15% false rate).

  • Probability of cancer with positive test is = G

 

  • H (2 points) what does the probability of having a false positive need to be if you want the probability of having cancer if you have a positive mammogram (i.e. G) to be = 8/107, which is the same as the above example = H
Answer Table
A (3 points) B (2 points) C (2 points) D (2 points) E (2 points) F (2 points) G (5 points) H (2 points)

 

Section 3 – Process Analysis  (20 points) (You must use Tableau)

Using the data for Q3 (COVID data from WHO) do an analysis of which state is doing the best job of treating patients.  You must do at least the following:

  1. Draw a color map showing only the US (not including Alaska) of the total number of COVID cases. You should pick a color scheme that highlights the differences.
  2. Draw a symbol map showing only the US (not including Alaska) of the # of Deaths from COVID. This map should have an population overlay.
  3. Draw figures illustrating which states have the best and worst COVID care as defined the % of COVID patients that die. This should look at total #s.
    1. What are the 3 best and 3 worst states?
  4. Do the same analysis for the last 7 days?
    1. What are the 3 best and worst states for the last 7 days.

 

 Section 4 – Data Visualization (30 points)

Analyze the following data sets, 10 points for each data set.  You may use more than one display technique for each question.

  1. Data set one is the number of complaints a hospital received each week. You may assume the number of patients per week is the same.  Each patient may complain at most one time. For this data set assume management was not happy with the current # of complaints.  They found and fixed one problem, they had a rude service provider that was asked to leave.  Describe the data, where the change occurred, and how much has the problem improve
  2. Data set two are patient satisfaction scores for two hospitals. The possible range of scores is 0 – 10. You are the manager for Hospital 1.  Compare your patient satisfaction to that of Hospital 2.
  3. Data set three are the # of total falls from all patients in two Hospitals per week. Hospital # 1 has 50 patients; Hospital #2 has 25 patients. Each patient may fall 0 or more times. You are the manager for Hospital 1. Compare this quality metric to Hospital 2.