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Statistical methods for hospital monitoring with R / Anthony Morton ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morton, Anthony Park, 1933- author.
- Series:
- Statistics in Practice
- Statistics in practice
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hospitals--Administration--Statistical methods.
- Hospitals.
- Hospitals--Administration--Data processing.
- R (Computer program language).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (431 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester : Wiley, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Hospitals monitoring is becoming more complex and is increasing both because staff want their data analysed and because of increasing mandated surveillance. This book provides a suite of functions in R, enabling scientists and data analysts working in infection management and quality improvement departments in hospitals, to analyse their often non-independent data which is frequently in the form of trended, over-dispersed and sometimes auto-correlated time series; this is often difficult to analyse using standard office software. This book provides much-needed guidance on data analy
- Contents:
- Proportion
- Risk adjustment
- Cusum and related charts for binary data
- Introduction rate and count data
- Introduction, data, limitations of aggregated count data analysis
- Arranging data by weeks, months, quarters
- Multiple antibiotic-resistant organism (MRO) prevalence
- Overview of hospital quality improvement.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781118639153
- 1118639154
- 9781118639177
- 1118639170
- 9781118639160
- 1118639162
- OCLC:
- 852758219
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