HLT362V Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

HLT362V Topic 3 Discussion 2 Evaluate and provide examples of how hypothesis testing and confidence intervals are use together in health care research. Provide a workplace example that illustrates your ideas.

HLT362V Topic 5 Discussion 2 Discuss ways your organization uses technology to gather patient and health care information, and how this information and data are use to direct patient care and outcomes.

HLT362V Topic 1 Discussion 2 Discuss why it is important for a person working in health care to understand statistical concepts. Provide an example of how statistical data is used in your organization or specialty area today and what you are expected to do with this information as a practitioner.

HLT-362V Week 3 DQ 2 - Researchers routinely choose an alpha………… Applied Statistics for Health Care Professionals - Hypothesis Testing Grand Canyon University Researchers routinely choose an alpha level of 0.05 for testing their hypotheses. What are some experiments for which you might want a lower alpha level (e.g., 0.01)? What are some situations in which you might accept a higher level (e.g., 0.1)? Answer 1 The significance level (alpha) is the probability of committing a type ...

Select a research article, other than the articles from your assignments, from the GCU library. Provide an overview of the study and describe the strategy that was used to select the sample from the population. Evaluate the effectiveness of the sampling method selected. Provide support for your answer. Include the article title and permalink in your post There is a major problem in clinical research. The researcher tries to solve and control the outcomes. Several approaches can be consulted...

Provide an example of experimental, quasi-experimental, and nonexperimental research from the GCU Library and explain how each research type differs from the others. When replying to peers, evaluate the effectiveness of the research design of the study for two of the examples provided

HLT-362V Week 3 DQ 1 - Explain when a z-test would be appropriate………. Applied Statistics for Health Care Professionals - Hypothesis Testing Grand Canyon University Explain when a z-test would be appropriate over a t-test. Answer 1 Z-test = Statistical test used to determine whether two population means are different when the variances are known and the sample is large. T-test compares the actual difference between two means in relation to the variation in the data Z-test is a stat...

Using the research article selected for DQ 1, identify three key questions you will ask and answer when reading the research study and why these questions are important. When responding to peers, provide other questions and answers that could be considered in relation to the peers' studies.

1. Question:If a study is comparing a number of falls by age, age is considered what type of variable? 2. Question:Validity is: 3. Question:Data is defined as: 4. Question:External and internal influences within a study that can affect the validity and reliability of outcomes is called: 5. Question:Level of measurement that defines the relationship between things and assigns an order or ranking to each thing is known as: 6. Question:The average of the collected data is known as: 7. Questi...

1. Question:In a research study, if the sample size is too low and the results do not find a statistical difference when in fact there is a difference, this is referred to as . 2. Question: To obtain a sample of 20 patients in ICU, clinician goes to the ICU and selects the current patients. This is an example of a: 3. Question: Scenario Based Question: If you were conducting a study of blood pressure readings in a hospital unit, compared AM and PM readings, and assumed the data were normally d...