Onondaga Community College Health Statistics Paper

Write a one-page paper detailing how health statistics are used in daily life. How do statistics play a role in predicting disease? What health statistics resources (CDC, NCHS, etc.…) are out there? Explain what information can be found using these resources. Your paper should be 1.5 line spaced with an APA reference page.

1 HIT 201 Health Statistics Extra Credit Assignment 2: Worth 100 points Due date: 12/11/2020 Instructions: Answer the following questions and attach your answers as a word document. Show your work where it is appropriate. 1. Which of the following is the lead agency responsible for protecting the health of the US population? a. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention b. Department of Health and Human Services c. Food and Drug Administration d. Environmental Protection Agency 2. Which of the following are unprocessed facts and figures? a. Numbers b. Data c. Statistics d. Knowledge 3. The type of statistics that describes the characteristics of a group or population is called _____. a. b. c. d. Inferential statistics Descriptive statistics Generalized statistics Mathematical statistics 4. Determine the LOS for the following patients Patient Admitted Discharged (same year as admission) 6/25 A 6/25 B 6/25 7/4 C 6/25 8/1 D 6/25 9/2 LOS 2 5. Using the information in the table that follows, calculate the postoperative mortality rate at Community Hospital during July. Nearest tenth of a percent. Community Hospital July 20XX Deaths Surgery Service Discharges (Does not include deaths) Deaths Within 10 days after surgery More than 10 days after surgery Number of operations Number of patients operated on 483 9 5 4 495 480 6. 1. A coding supervisor must determine the number of FTEs needed to code 600 discharges per week. If it takes an average of 20 minutes to code each record and each coding professional works 7.5 productive hours per day, how many FTEs will the coding supervisor need? Round to one decimal place. 7. A surgical procedure is a single manipulation that can be complete in itself. True or False? 8. surgical operation is one or more surgical procedures performed at one time using the same approach and for a common purpose. True or False? 9. Rates are determined by dividing the number of times something happens by the number of times it could have happened. True or false? 3 10. Label the following graphs with their correct name. A. Histogram B. Pie Chart C. Bar Chart D. Scatter Diagram E. Line graph F. Run Chart 1. ______________ 3._______________ 2. ______________ 4 4. _____________ 5._______________ 5 6.________________