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Statistical application in Health Care
The application of statistics in the healthcare sector is a critical aspect used to guide
decision-makers. Health statistics include both the estimates and the empirical data related to
Statistical Application in Healthcare
Ivis Perez Delgado
Grand Canyon University
10/10/2020
healthcare, health systems, health services coverage, risk factors, morbidity, and mortality. In
recent years, statistical analysis has been widely used in health care organizations to gauge
healthcare systems' performance. The human services agencies normally use the statistics
assessed on healthcare to measure the performance results and the entire population (Joyia et al,
2016). Pharmaceutical industries and the hospitals also use statistics to examine the risks linked
to the patient by establishing effectiveness in the various treatments used. Statistics can help
understand a lot of patients, and as a result, it is much easier to innovate new treatment methods.
Most companies that are involved in healthcare struggle o ensure that the goods and
services are delivered on time. Through this, statistics can help in the assessment of the success
and the failures of the company. The managers for quality improvement can create standard
service of excellence that can gauge the results. When such companies have reliable statistical
information, the viability and the overall growth of the health care companies can be improved.
Data collection can also be used in various clinical trials used for the new technologies and the
treatment that will be used to find the benefits alongside the risks of the product.
Statistical information can also be used to increase the safety of the community. This is
an important aspect, especially in the identification of effective treatments that will help people.
The healthcare personnel must carefully examine healthcare statistics using the treatment that has
been effective in the experimental evidence to attain their research studies' impact. Most medical
personnel have to use statistical information to assess the effectiveness of the interventions and
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treatments. Medical personnel also conduct their studies that will benefit the safety of the patient.
Therefore, statistics in healthcare will be essential in providing safety to the patients.
Statistics in healthcare have a great impact on improving the leadership of the healthcare
institution. Skills in statistics are required, especially in the evaluation of the healthcare data in
the healthcare industry. Leaders in the healthcare industry have to conduct scientific research and
make decisions that impact the healthcare sector. Thereby, leaders will use statistics in answering
the complex questions that are affecting the healthcare industry. Also, statistics help healthcare
leaders predict the possible results, and as a result, the leaders can make decisions in the
healthcare sector.
Most healthcare institutions do not take part in formal research because they do not read
nor interpret research (Sharples. 2018). The healthcare sector is constantly changing, and the
treatments and diagnostic techniques are also changing. In recent years, new diseases have
developed, and thereby, statistics is required to keep track of the rate through which new diseases
emerge. Also, there are new developments in the research that require one to appraise the
literature and assess the reliability and applicability of a certain patient. Therefore, all these
aspects require statistical literacy. Also, healthcare promotion can be achieved through statistics
(Wang et al, 2018). A statistician in the healthcare sector can use the information to provide
solutions to rational decision-making. Thereby, health statisticians have to interact with the
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decision-makers in contributing to the healthcare policies that enable people to elevate and
control their healthcare.
Acquiring statistical data in the healthcare institution needs a different set of public and
private data collection systems. The used systems comprise the records of billings, health
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surveys, and medical records of the hospitals, health, plans, physicians, and other medical
entities. Ethnicity, race, and language data should also be collected to get comprehensive
information about the patients and enrollees in healthcare systems. Healthcare information
technology is used to develop the obtaining data from a personal healthcare record. The data
should be well incorporated into the running data to protect the patient. Also, the knowledge in
statistics can be applied in a wide range of specialties and settings. The knowledge can be used to
change and improve the processes in the healthcare institution. Research on the various medical
fields determines which medicine or intervention performs best when put in the human body.
When the human body is analyzed statistically, the psychologists get an easy time understanding
the human body.
Examples of statistical concepts applicable to healthcare include hypothesis testing,
which may be used to investigate claims of the safety and effectiveness of a drug among other
applications. Descriptive statistics may also be used to calculate various measures such as the
mean and standard deviation of the number of patients in a facility in a day. Another example is
the use of regression models for predictive analytics. There are many more other uses of statistics
in healthcare.
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References
Joyia, G. J., Liaqat, R. M., Farooq, A., & Rehman, S. (2017). Internet of Medical Things
(IOMT): applications, benefits, and future challenges in the healthcare domain. J Commun,
12(4), 240-247.
Sharples, L. D. (2018). The role of statistics in the era of big data: Electronic health records for
healthcare research. Statistics & Probability Letters, 136 , 105-110.
verb acquire (get, develop): Acquiring Get
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obtain (get): obtaining get
Wang, Y., Kung, L., Wang, W. Y. C., & Cegielski, C. G. (2018). An integrated big data
analytics-enabled transformation model: Application to health care. Information & Management,
55(1), 64-79.
