Chapter 16 - Healthcare Statistics Flashcards
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A&D
Patients who are admitted and discharged on the same day
A&C
Adults and children (in a daily census)
Arithmetic Mean
The sum of all the numbers in a group of data is divided by the number of items in that group of data
Autopsy
The postmortem examinations of the organs and tissues of a body to determine the cause of death or pathological conditions
Average Daily Census
The mean number of hospital inpatients present in the hospital each day for a given period
Bed Turnover Rate
The average number of times a bed changes occupant during a given period
Case Mix Index (CMI)
The average relative weight of all cases treated at a given facility or by a given physician, which reflects the resource intensity or clinical severity of a specific group in relation to the other groups in the classification system
Descriptive Statistics
A set of statistical techniques used to describe data such as means, frequency distributions, and standard deviations. Statistical information that describes the characteristics of a specific group or a population
Epidemiology
The study of the distribution and determinants of health problems in specified populations and the application of this study to control health problems
Fetal Death
The death of a product of human conception before its complete expulsion or extraction from the mother regardless of the duration of the pregnancy
Fetal Death Rate
Statistics A proportion that compares the number of intermediate or late fetal deaths to the total number of live births and intermediate or late fetal deaths during the same period
Gross Autopsy Rate
The number of inpatient autopsies conducted during a given period divided by the total number of inpatient deaths for the same period
Gross Death Rate
The number of inpatient deaths that occurred during a given period divided by the total number of inpatient discharges, including deaths, for the same period
Health Statistics
Providing information for understanding, monitoring, improving, and planning the use of resources to improve the lives of people, provide services, and promote their wellbeing
Hospital Autopsy Rate
The total number of autopsies performed by a hospital pathologist for a given period divided by the number of deaths of hospital patients whose bodies were available for autopsy for the same period
Hospital Death Rate
The number of inpatient deaths for a given period divided by the total number of live discharges and deaths for the same period
Hospital Inpatient
A patient who is provided with room, board, and continuous general nursing services in an area of an acute care facility where patients generally stat at least overnight
Hospital Newborn Inpatient
A patient born in the hospital at the beginning of the current inpatient hospitalization
Hospital Outpatient
A hospital patient who receives services in one or more of a hospital’s facilities when he or she is not currently an inpatient or a home care patient
Incidence Rate
A computation that compares the number of new cases of a specific disease for a given period to the population at risk for the disease during the same period
Infection Rate
The ratio of all infections to the number of discharges, including deaths
Inferential Statistics
Statistics that are used to make inferences from a smaller group of data to a large one A set of statistical techniques that allows researchers to generalize about a population’s characteristics based on a sample’s characteristics
Inpatient Admission
An acute-care facility’s formal acceptance of a patient who is to be provided with room, board, and continuous nursing service in an area of the facility where patients generally stay at least overnight
Inpatient Bed occupancy Rate
The total number of inpatient service days for a given period divided by the total number of inpatient bed count days for the same period
