CHAPTER 9

Question 1

What is the advantage of hospitals W/ERs vs W/O ERs

Answer 1

Better outcomes hospitals with ERs

Question 2

National readmission rate  they don’t give us the benchmark because we’ll get penalized. 3% of penalty

Answer 2

Readmissions in Hospitals

Question 3

Rate of readmission is utilized as a valuable ______________.

Answer 3

Measure of Performance

Question 4

Uses the rate of 30 day readmission as a measure of quality performance in the assessment of successful adherence to guidelines

Answer 4

AHA Target

Question 5

Other factors that impact and increase readmission:

Answer 5

hospital beds available, accessible ER services, underlying health factors, premature diagnoses, accessibility to primary care

Question 6

Statistical procedure that is used when you have one categorical variable with 2 values and one quantitative variable; analysis can be used to determine whether and to what degree emergency services affect a hospital’s rate of readmission

Answer 6

Simple Logistic Regression

Question 7

2 possible responses  outcome will always be one of 2 factors. Either the readmission rate will be better than the US National Average or worse than the US National Average

Answer 7

Dichotomous

Question 8

Efficient way to count the number of providers within the selection criteria; put responses in categories, make contingency variables

Answer 8

Pivot Tables

Question 9

TRUE/FALSE: Readmission that expired factor into data analysis?

Answer 9

TRUE

Question 10

Used when the outcome variable of interest is categorical rather than continuous

Allows us to look at the effect of multiple predictions

Answer 10

Logistic Regression

Question 11

Descriptive statistic that can be derived from a contingency table like 9.1 or the coefficients of a logistic regression, it is a measure of effect size and provides an index for the strength of association between 2 variables

Answer 11

ODDS Ratio