Statistical applications for health information management
"Statistical Applications for Health Information Management, Second Edition covers the basic biostatistics, descriptive statistics, and inferential statistics that are unique to health information management (HIM). This text provides the essential theory while emphasizing practical applications that health information management professionals use in the real world every day." "New topics and features include: a discussion of percentiles and their use in benchmarking; an example "abbreviated" hospital database that allows students to reinforce statistical theory in practical applications; examples of data collection using ICD-10; exercises that apply statistical knowledge to real world examples; development of models to predict length of stay; and how to compare an organization's performance with state and national benchmarks."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, ©2006
Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Sudbury, Mass., ©2006
x, 390 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
9780763728427, 076372842X
57236019
Commonly used frequency measures in health care
Graphic display of data
Introduction to measurement
Measures of central tendency and variability
The normal distribution and statistical inference
Hypothesis testing of the difference between two population means
Analysis of variance
Correlation and linear regression
Chi square
Nonparametric methods