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A hospital researcher is interested in the association between patient satisfaction and hospital market share. The researcher hypothesizes that increased patient satisfaction will lead to an increase in hospital market share. Research Methods A longitudinal study of seven years will be conducted to assess the change in hospital market share over time. Urban hospitals from the United States that have more than 100 beds will be included in the analysis. The data set will include hospital cha...

WGU C985 Health care Analytics QUESTION 100% SOLVEDLinear regression In conversations with her patients, a physical therapist notices that patients who are on Workman's Compensation and have supportive supervisors, eager for them to return to work, have more positive outcomes in rehabilitation than those patients whose supervisors have a negative attitude toward their employee's injury: insisting they not return to work until they are at 100% because if anything less they are "useless to the...

The quality improvement team is reviewing quarterly incident reports and evaluating the effect of Six Sigma strategies on the quantity of medication errors over the past two years. The team hypothesizes a continuous reduction in medical errors for each quarter. The sample consists of patient clinical and demographic characteristics. Unfortunately, causation cannot be determined from the data available. Which research method should be used to test the team's hypothesis? time series ...

ANOVA test - ANSWER-Analysis of variance test. Used when there are two or more groups to compare. A group of psychiatric patients are trying three different therapies: counseling, medication and biofeedback. You want to see if one therapy is better than the others; parametric Chi-square test - ANSWER-Determine if an association exists between two categorical variables. Compares values you observe to expected. Do men or women call out sick more to work? Variables of gender: male and female. Ex...

WGU C985 Health care Analytics QUESTION AND ANSWER 2023Linear regression In conversations with her patients, a physical therapist notices that patients who are on Workman's Compensation and have supportive supervisors, eager for them to return to work, have more positive outcomes in rehabilitation than those patients whose supervisors have a negative attitude toward their employee's injury: insisting they not return to work until they are at 100% because if anything less they are "useless to...

WGU C985 QUESTION AND ANSWER 100% SOLVEDThe quality improvement team is reviewing quarterly incident reports and evaluating the effect of Six Sigma strategies on the quantity of medication errors over the past two years. The team hypothesizes a continuous reduction in medical errors for each quarter. The sample consists of patient clinical and demographic characteristics. Unfortunately, causation cannot be determined from the data available. Which research method should be used to test the...

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