ESSAY AND A PPT

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HS312: Epidemiology & Biostatistics II

Unit 9 Seminar

Unit 9 Readings

There are no assigned readings this week

Unit 9 Assignment 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

You will submit both a written paper and a PowerPoint Presenation

Assignment Instructions

Choose a raw data set related to healthcare (1) quality, (2) safety, and/or (3) effectiveness

Analysis

Use SPSS to analyze the data set in order to give you descriptive and inferential statistics

Create at least 3 different data displays using SPSS

Discussion

Interpret your descriptive and analytical statistics

Recommendations

Make 3 recommendations for evidence-based decision-making relevant for organizational action or change

Unit 9 Assignment Instructions

Research involving human participants requires approval from an Institutional Review Board (IRB) (or Independent Ethics Committee (IEC))

For this assignment you will follow the instructions under Part 7 and earn a certification on the national guidelines regarding human subjects

You will include a screenshot of this certificate in your presentation

Assignment Tips

Choose “datasets”

You can then filter using the keywords on the left

For example, I found the dataset entitled:

I could run a regression analysis using SPSS to determine if the rating of a hospital had any correlation with inpatient mortality rates

I would then use SPSS to make tables/visual displays to include

Assignment Instructions

Presentation:

Create a 10 slide powerpoint presentation discussing your data, analysis, tables/visualizations and recommendations

Include a screenshot of your certificate for completing the IRB course

The End

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