Deck 8: Health Statistics

Question 1

Vital statistics are generated from data collected by facilities and then reported to the federal government.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Daily Inpatient Census describes the services received by one patient during one 24-hour period.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Over time, trends can be revealed that are invisible in a daily process.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Regression analysis concerns itself with predictive power.

Question 5

The responsibility to collect the data on vital statistics rests with state governments.

Question 6

The use of morbidity statistics has been used to track bioterrorism events.

Question 7

Many types of mortality rates are commonly calculated, including anesthesia death rate and postoperative death rate.

Question 8

The median of 15, 20, 30, 40, and 50 is 31.

Question 9

A ratio is a quantity that signifies the amount of one quantity relative to another.

Question 10

In aggregate data collection, specific data are combined into smaller groupings that can be used to describe a bigger concept.

Question 11

Statistics is defined as the mathematics of the collection, organization, and interpretation of numerical data, especially the analysis of population characteristics by inference from sampling.

Question 12

A mode is a score or number that occurs with the greatest frequency.

Question 13

Correlation refers to a mutual relation or interdependence between two or more things.

Question 14

A prevalence rate is the proportion of newly reported cases of a disease for a particular time period divided by the total population at risk during the same period.

Question 15

Health care organizations collect enormous amounts of data on a daily basis.

Question 16

Health care facilities typically collect seven broad categories of patient data.

Question 17

Statistics is an unique language designed specifically to "tell the story" of health care delivery and patient outcomes.

Question 18

Descriptive Statistics refers to reaching conclusions based upon data from a sample where the patterns in the data are modeled so that randomness and uncertainty in observations are addressed.

Question 19

Concurrent data collection-the process of converting the paper record into a computerized abstract of the same-would be performed after a patient was discharged.

Question 20

Examples of vital statistics are births, deaths, fetal deaths, marriages, divorces, and induced terminations of pregnancy.

Question 21

What is the percentage increase in workload if a provider was seeing 20 patients per day and is now seeing 30 patients per day?

A) 50%
B) 33%
C) 20%
D) 150%

Question 22

If you add 2 cups of a solution to 5 cups of water, what is the ratio?

A) 2:5
B) 0.4
C) 2/5
D) 40%

Question 23

Which of the following is a common example of a vital statistic in health care?

A) educational level of client
B) list of entire work history
C) addresses of relatives of patients
D) number of deaths at facility

Question 24

Which of the following are considered forms of applied statistics?

A) descriptive statistics
B) inferential statistics
C) mathematical statistics
D) both descriptive and inferential statistics
E) none are a form of applied statistics

Question 25

In the fraction 1/3, which is the denominator?

A) 1
B) 3

Question 26

Express the quotient 6/1000 as a decimal.

A) 0.0006
B) 0.006
C) 600
D) 6000

Question 27

Demographic statistics is the study of which of the following?

A) human populations
B) employment trends
C) death rates
D) birth rates

Question 28

If your manager requests a statistical analysis of patients with known heart disease using the sampling method so that the information can be applied to the larger population, which method would be the one to use?

A) descriptive statistics
B) inferential statistics
C) either descriptive or inferential will work in this case

Question 29

Reduce the fraction 22/44 to its lowest term.

A) 1/2
B) 2/4
C) 2.2/4.4
D) 1/4

Question 30

Public health surveillance statistics focus on illnesses, conditions, and diseases of human beings. What is another name for this type of statistics?

A) mortality
B) morbidity
C) epidemiology

Question 31

An example of categorical data is sorting towels according to color: red, green, yellow, and blue.

Question 32

Round 33.05973 to the nearest thousandth.

A) 33.059
B) 33.06
C) 33.060
D) 33.0597

Question 33

What is the mode of $500, $100, $400, $500, $300?

A) $360
B) $400
C) $500
D) $300

Question 34

Mortality rates are the measurement of how deadly a disease is within a given population.

Question 35

A special concern when calculating length of stay is to include the day of discharge.

Question 36

Round 43,589.056 to the nearest thousand.

A) 44,000
B) 43,600
C) 43,589.06
D) 43,589.056

Question 37

Which of the following statements is true about statistics?

A) It determines how data should be collected.
B) It is an effective tool for analysis of population characteristics by inference from sampling.
C) It becomes severely limited if available data is extensive.
D) The beginning use of statistics dates back to the1400s.

Question 38

The best definition of epidemiology would be which of the following?

A) study of the cause and distribution of diseases
B) the recording of vital statistics
C) comparing morbidity to mortality for the purpose of further studies

Question 39

Nominal data is a data set that classifies values, but does not require a logical ordering of those values.

Question 40

To understand statistics, one must first build a statistical vocabulary.

Question 41

Match the term with its descriptor.
the rate of death in a given population or community

A)case fatality rates
B)mortality rates
C)morbidity rates
D)discrete data
E)continuous data
F)nominal data
G)ordinal data
H)interval data
I)categorical data

Question 42

A graph that presents the frequency of data through the use of a circle drawn and divided into sections that correspond to the frequency in each category is called a

A) histogram
B) pie chart
C) line graph
D) bar graph
E) frequency polygon

Question 43

In a quantitative study, how is the data identified?

A) by characteristic, such as scoring of patient satisfaction surveys
B) by the differences in amount, or frequency, or degree that exists, such as the incidence of nosocomial infections for a particular operative unit

Question 44

This type of graph is very well suited to superimposing the data within one graph, thus making comparisons easy for the reader.

A) Histogram
B) Bar graph
C) Frequency polygon
D) Line graph

Question 45

Both descriptive and inferential statistics are considered forms of

A) mathematical statistics.
B) applied statistics.
C) vital statistics.
D) public health surveillance statistics.

Question 46

Hospital management announces that the annual labor costs ratio is 37%. What does this indicate?

A) careful management of labor costs
B) the labor costs are extremely low
C) the labor costs are excessively high

Question 47

Match the term with its descriptor.
data set which is ordered by the differences between the values are not important

A)case fatality rates
B)mortality rates
C)morbidity rates
D)discrete data
E)continuous data
F)nominal data
G)ordinal data
H)interval data
I)categorical data

Question 48

Match the term with its descriptor.
data set which is both ordered and constant but contains no natural zero as a point of reference

A)case fatality rates
B)mortality rates
C)morbidity rates
D)discrete data
E)continuous data
F)nominal data
G)ordinal data
H)interval data
I)categorical data

Question 49

A report on births could be called a(n) ____________________ report. (Hint: What is another name for births?)

Question 50

What is a standard deviation?

A) the square root of a variance
B) the number squared
C) a line of points
D) a graphical depiction of results

Question 51

Match the term with its descriptor.
measurement of how deadly a disease is in a given population

A)case fatality rates
B)mortality rates
C)morbidity rates
D)discrete data
E)continuous data
F)nominal data
G)ordinal data
H)interval data
I)categorical data

Question 52

Match the term with its descriptor.
data set which classifies values but does not require a logical ordering of those values

A)case fatality rates
B)mortality rates
C)morbidity rates
D)discrete data
E)continuous data
F)nominal data
G)ordinal data
H)interval data
I)categorical data

Question 53

The mean of 4, 6, 8 is ____________________.

Question 54

Match the term with its descriptor.
values which lie within a certain range

A)case fatality rates
B)mortality rates
C)morbidity rates
D)discrete data
E)continuous data
F)nominal data
G)ordinal data
H)interval data
I)categorical data

Question 55

When statistics do not adequately work because the data comprising the statistics are difficult to understand or do not clearly show a pattern, another statistical tool called ____________________ ____________________ may be used.

Question 56

Match the term with its descriptor.
the specific values are distinct and separate and points between these values are not considered valid

A)case fatality rates
B)mortality rates
C)morbidity rates
D)discrete data
E)continuous data
F)nominal data
G)ordinal data
H)interval data
I)categorical data

Question 57

The e-HIM environment has made it possible to do what type of data collection?

A) aggregate data collection
B) retrospective data collection
C) concurrent data collection

Question 58

Match the term with its descriptor.
the ratio of sick to well persons in a community

A)case fatality rates
B)mortality rates
C)morbidity rates
D)discrete data
E)continuous data
F)nominal data
G)ordinal data
H)interval data
I)categorical data

Question 59

What test is performed when a need exists to compare more than two groups?

A) anova or F test
B) beta or B test
C) time or T test
D) sample of S test

Question 60

All the following items mean the same thing, with one exception.

A) Inpatient service days
B) Daily inpatient census
C) Daily census
D) Inpatient census

Question 61

Explain the difference between Inpatient Census and Daily Inpatient Census

Question 62

Match the term with its descriptor.
types and volume of patients treated by the health care facility

A)case mix
B)productivity
C)labor analysis
D)control chart
E)Type I error
F)Type II error
G)trend chart
H)process capability analysis
I)Pareto Principle

Question 63

Match the term with its descriptor.
indicates that a special cause exists, but the sampling is not sensitive enough to discover it, so it remains unnoticed

A)case mix
B)productivity
C)labor analysis
D)control chart
E)Type I error
F)Type II error
G)trend chart
H)process capability analysis
I)Pareto Principle

Question 64

Match the term with its descriptor.
occurs when a sample point falls outside the upper or lower control limits, but there is no special cause to explain it

A)case mix
B)productivity
C)labor analysis
D)control chart
E)Type I error
F)Type II error
G)trend chart
H)process capability analysis
I)Pareto Principle

Question 65

Match the term with its descriptor.
process control technique
18. 80/20 Rule

A)case mix
B)productivity
C)labor analysis
D)control chart
E)Type I error
F)Type II error
G)trend chart
H)process capability analysis
I)Pareto Principle

Question 66

Match the term with its descriptor.
ability to produce work outcomes in a timely manner

A)case mix
B)productivity
C)labor analysis
D)control chart
E)Type I error
F)Type II error
G)trend chart
H)process capability analysis
I)Pareto Principle

Question 67

Define a rate formula. Give an example.

Question 68

Match the term with its descriptor.
set of data in which the values belonging to the set can be sorted according to logical categories and each category does not overlap into another category

A)case fatality rates
B)mortality rates
C)morbidity rates
D)discrete data
E)continuous data
F)nominal data
G)ordinal data
H)interval data
I)categorical data

Question 69

Match the term with its descriptor.
refers to the activity and business of determining if a work area has enough staff, too many staff, or if they are working under a staffing shortage

A)case mix
B)productivity
C)labor analysis
D)control chart
E)Type I error
F)Type II error
G)trend chart
H)process capability analysis
I)Pareto Principle

Question 70

Match the term with its descriptor.
graphical presentation of data which shows patterns or shifts according to time

A)case mix
B)productivity
C)labor analysis
D)control chart
E)Type I error
F)Type II error
G)trend chart
H)process capability analysis
I)Pareto Principle

Question 71

Describe descriptive statistics.

Question 72

Match the term with its descriptor.
graph with statistically generated upper and lower control limits used to measure key processes over time

A)case mix
B)productivity
C)labor analysis
D)control chart
E)Type I error
F)Type II error
G)trend chart
H)process capability analysis
I)Pareto Principle

Question 73

Explain the difference between mortality and morbidity rate.

Question 74

State two of the six graphing rules that apply to most situations.