Chapter 13: Vocabulary Flashcards
To assist you in learning the vocabulary found throughout your text, the exam, and the industry.
Aggregate data
Data extracted from individual health records and combined to form de-identified information about groups of patients that can be compared and analyzed
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
The branch of the US Public Health Service that supports general health research and distributes research findings and treatment guidelines with the goal of improving the quality, appropriateness, and effectiveness of healthcare services
Bar chart
A graphic technique used to display frequency distributions of nominal or ordinal data that fall into categories
Bubble charts
A type of scatter plot with circular symbols used to compare three variables; the area of the circle indicates the value of a third variable
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
A federal agency dedicated to protecting health and promoting quality of life through the prevention and control of disease, injury, and disability. Committed to programs that reduce the health and economic consequences of the leading causes of death and disability, thereby ensuring a long, productive, healthy life for all people
Chart
- (noun) The health record of a patient 2. (verb) To document information about a patient in a health record
Comparative data
Individual data that is organized numerically and collated to make some comparisons against standards or benchmarks
Continuous variable
Discrete variables measured with sufficient precision
Correlational studies
A design of research that determines the existence and degree of relationships among factors
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
Descriptive studies
Research that is exploratory in nature and generate new hypotheses from the data that is collected
Discrete variable
A dichotomous or nominal variable whose values are placed into categories
Ethnography
A method of observational research that investigates culture in naturalistic settings using both qualitative and quantitative approaches
Experimental study
Study that strives to establish cause and effect; it entails exposing participants to different interventions in order to compare the result of these interventions with the outcome
Frequency
The number of times something occurs in a particular population or sample over a specific period of time
Frequency polygon
A type of line graph that represents a frequency distribution
Graph
A graphic tool used to show numerical data in a pictorial representation
Grounded theory
A theory about what is actually going on instead of what should go on
Healthcare research organizations
Organizations that conduct, promote, or support research across healthcare organizations
Histogram
A graphic technique used to display the frequency distribution of continuous data (interval or ratio data) as either numbers or percentages in a series of bars
Incidence rate
A computation that compares the number of new cases of a specific disease for a given time period to the population at risk for the disease during the same time period
Independent variable
The factors in experimental research that researchers manipulate directly.
Individual data
Healthcare data that is housed within the electronic health record, data collected from a case study, a focus group of individuals, or during an interview or survey
Inferential statistics
- Statistics that are used to make inferences from a smaller group of data to a large one 2. A set of statistical techniques that allows researchers to make generalizations about a population’s characteristics (parameters) on the basis of a sample’s characteristics