Epidemiology and Biostatistics II

Assignment Details

Unit 9 Assignment: Statistical Analyses for Organizational Decision-Making in Healthcare

Grading rubrics for this Assignment are located under Course Resources.

Unit outcomes addressed in this Assignment:

• Describe the health initiative addressed.

• Identify credible data sources.

• Choose appropriate statistical measures.

• Present an action plan based on decisions from data analysis.

• Analyze a given data set for the purpose of making a decision.

• Prepare a PowerPoint presentation on the best action based on clinical data.

Course outcomes assessed in this Assignment:

HS312-6: Explain the relationship between health data analytics and business decisions to

improve a specific healthcare initiative.

Please complete using Microsoft Word and PowerPoint--as indicated in the

instructions.

Assignment Requirements

• The body of your Microsoft Word document should be at least 1500 words in length.

• Your PowerPoint presentation should be at least 10 slides--excluding the title slide and

references.

• Quoting should be less than 10% of the entire paper and presentation. Paraphrasing is

necessary.

• Students must cite and reference at least 4 credible sources from the online Library.

• Please be sure to utilize the resources available in Academic Tools to help with

meeting APA expectations for written assignments.

Instructions

Imagine that you are an executive for a health organization. As part of your role within the

healthcare leadership team, you are tasked with analyzing organizational data for decision-

making purposes. For this assignment, you will obtain raw data, analyze it, and make

recommendations for organizational decisions. Please follow the instructions below in

completion of this multi-part assignment.

Apply analytical results to facilitate decision-making

Part Competency Assessed Instructions

1 Apply analytical results to

facilitate decision-making

Create a presentation on your exploratory data analysis

of mined data sets for an executive healthcare team.

Include a summary of your analysis, statistical tables,

and data visualizations. Conclude your presentation on

the importance of executive dashboards.

2 Recommended organizational

action based on knowledge

obtained from data

exploration and mining

Based on your analysis, make three (3)

recommendations for evidence-based decision-making

relevant for organizational action or change.

3 Analyze clinical data to

identify trends that

demonstrate quality, safety,

and effectiveness of

healthcare

Examine the clinical data to identify trends related to

healthcare (1) quality, (2) safety, and (3) effectiveness.

4 Evaluate administrative

reports using appropriate

software

Obtain a raw data set from www.healthdata.gov and

explore the data set using PSPP. Generate analytical

outputs from PSPP that include the appropriate

selection of both descriptive and inferential statistics. If

you are not able to process one data set using

descriptive and inferential statistics, then select one

data set for descriptive statistics and another data set

for inferential statistics. Generate tables in PSPP that

reflect your statistical analyses and include at least

three (3) appropriate data visualizations.

5 Interpret inferential statistics Compose a discussion in which you evaluate the

findings from your analyses—interpreting the

descriptive and inferential statistics.

6 Analyze statistical data for

decision making

Within your presentation, analyze the statistical data

for decision-making by organizing various

presentations of data visualizations—highlighting

multiple perspectives on the same topic.

7 Plan adherence to Institutional

Review Board (IRB)

Processes and policies

Demonstrate your understanding of IRBs by earning a

certification on national guidelines regarding human-

subjects research. Begin by first creating an account at

http://phrp.nihtraining.com/users/login.php. Once you

have completed the Readings for each module,

complete the quizzes and obtain the training certificate.

You will take a screenshot of your certificate of

completion and insert this image into this paper.

Following a screenshot of your earned certificate in

protecting human subjects, plan adherence to

Institutional Review Board (IRB) processes and

policies by reflecting upon the concepts of (1) Respect,

(2) Justice, (3) Nonmaleficence, and (4) Beneficence

by providing (A) your interpretation of the concept, (B)

an example of complying with the principle within

healhcare, and (C) connecting each concept with the

characteristics of quality data.