Hospital Data, All Patient Refined Diagnosis Related Groups , health and medicine homework help
Hospital Data, All Patient Refined Diagnosis Related Groups , health and medicine homework help
Prior to beginning this discussion, please make sure to watch Screencast Part 1 and Screencast Part 2. The MHA610_Week 1_Discussion_Hospital data (Excel) and MHA610_Week 1_Discussion_Hospital Data (Statdisk) contains basic demographic information on 250 patients admitted to a community hospital over a two week period. The first row of the worksheet indicates the variable names:
Gender
Male (M) or female (F)
Ethnicity
SevIllnessCode
These are All Patient Refined Diagnosis Related Groups (APR-DRG) categories of severity of illness, ranging from:
SevIllnessDescr
Mild (Category 1) to extreme (Category 4)
Age
In years
Wt
Patient weight, in kilograms
Ht
Patient height, in centimeters
BMI
Patient body mass index (BMI), where BMI = wt/ht*2, with weight in kilograms and ht height in meters
APR-DRG
Denotes All Patient Refined Diagnosis Related Group, a widely used inpatient classification system.
For this discussion, describe and summarize the demographic information on these patients. You may use tables or graphs (or both) for this purpose. Your goal is to convey to the reader an accurate snapshot of these patients. Support your response with correct scholarly sources. You initial post must be at least 250-500 words.
In case you cannot open the link this is the links:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/yy5it543fq6eizw/MHA610_week1_discussion_part1.mp4?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4bo6vetiazpvikl/MHA610_week1_discussion_part2.mp4?dl=0
mha610_week_1_discussion_hospital_data_022015.xls