Presenting Statistical Results for Decision Making NO PLAGIARISM ALLOWED!!!
This assignment must be based on HAC (Hospital Acquired Infections)
Introduction
The ability to translate analytic results into clear, concise, and actionable results is a vital skill for health care administrators. Because decision making is increasingly data-driven and evidence-based, managers are frequently required to formally present statistical results to leadership. Sometimes, decision makers differ as to how well they comprehend the information being delivered. Your job as a health care professional is to know how to distill and synthesize data analytics and present complex concepts in the pursuit of value, quality, and safety. You must be able to clearly communicate the results of your team’s data analysis and it should be both insightful and informative. How much your work is valued can depend heavily on how well the results of that analysis are articulated. Effectively communicating the results so the issues and recommendations are clear and explicit can greatly enhance the value of your analytic work.
For this assignment, you will evaluate the approach of an analytics team and interpret and present statistical results to support a health care recommendation.
Preparation
Review the Vila Health: Presenting Statistical Results for Decision Making simulation to evaluate, interpret, and present statistical results to support a health care recommendation.
Instructions
This assignment has two deliverables:
Prepare an 810-slide PowerPoint presentation about the statistical results with recommendations to health system leadership.
Ensure the slides graphically communicate the findings.
Ensure your presentation is relevant to and easily understood by everyone in the audience.
Include an APA-formatted references slide at the end of the presentation.
Be sure your written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
Use Kaltura or similar software to record your PowerPoint presentation. The presentation should last no more than 3 minutes, and it should contain audio of you speaking. You may use alternative programs or technology, provided you can still create a presentation with visuals and recorded audio.
Before you begin recording, create a script, speaker notes, or a detailed outline that you can refer to as you record. This professional best practice will help you prepare for your presentation and serve to clarify any insufficient or unclear audio in your recording.
Write a 24-page executive summary to accompany the PowerPoint presentation that provides additional context to the results of data analysis.
Include APA-formatted in-text citations where appropriate.
Vila Health Activity
Presenting Statistical Results for Decision Making
Introduction
Your Office
Stakeholder Interviews
Email Response
Conclusion
Introduction
At any enterprise, statistical results can point the way to better decisions. This is especially true in health care, where trends or changes in patient care or results can have powerful effects on health care organizations clinical effects, and financial effects. Knowing the facts about trends and changes is crucial to navigating them, which means that in many ways, statistical results are powerful tools.
But theyre less powerful if nobody understands them. More often than not, stakeholders in health care organizations are not well versed in statistics or data analysis. Especially for these stakeholders, its critical to make careful choices about which numbers to include and how to talk about those numbers. Doing so helps you to present statistical results in a way thats understandable and actionable even for those with less data literacy.
In this activity, youll have an opportunity to analyze a health trend at a large urban hospital, and to decide which results of the analysis are most important to communicate to the stakeholders concerned with it.
Your Office
You are an analyst in the Quality Assurance department at St. Anthony Medical Center, a large hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota. You have an email from David Brooks, the manager of Quality Assurance, in which he explains your next assignment.
Email
From:David Brooks
Subject:HACs
Hello! So Im aware that youre relatively new around here, but Ive got to pull you in on an important project. Heres the short version, and I can answer questions later if this isnt enough background.
Since youre in health care, you must know that hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) are a big deal. Hospitals are designed from the ground up to minimize them, but the fact is that hospitals always have a lot of bugs floating around and that means theyre a constant danger. And while we try to minimize mistakes, health care professionals are human, and sometimes mistakes cause real problems.
The hospitals board is getting worked up about them again, because weve had some high-profile cases where a patient went home and had to be readmitted because of a mistake or an infection they picked up while they were here. Theyre worried about PR, of course, but theyre worried about patient outcomes, and of course financial reimbursement and penalties, too.
What I need you to do is start working on a presentation about HACs here, specifically as they relate to staffing levels and skill mix. That presentation should explain our recommendations to the board. Youll want to include some statistics to bolster our case, so take a look at theAHRQ National Scorecard on Hospital-Acquired Conditionsand theCMS Hospital-Acquired Conditions Reduction Program. Look at published research about the relationship between HACs and staffing levels, too.
Lets get this right; this is our chance to get the board to understand that HACs will go down if they do what we recommend.
Go talk to Rick Susskind first; hes our senior data analyst and hes already been working on this. He has completed a data analysis on this, and he can explain what the variables are. Youll have to talk to a few other people too, to get everything you need.
David
Email
From:Rick Suskind
Subject:HAC Data
Hi! I got your message about the HAC question. Ive attached a spreadsheet of the data analysis weve got on that.
Here are a few variables that might be unclear:
HAC_Rate:Thats the number of HACs per 1,000 discharges. You could say its the measure for the extent of hospital errors.
Nursing_HPPD:Thats the number of nursing staff hours per patient day. Its the hospitals nurse staffing level.
Skill_Mix:Thats obviously about skill mix, but specifically, its the percentage of nursing staff hours that are provided by registered nurses, as opposed to other professionals.
ALOS:That stands for average length of stay; its the number of inpatient days per hospital discharge. Its a measure of how efficient the hospital is.
Let me know if you have other questions! Oh, youll need to find out how many discharges we have per year. I dont know that, but Troy Holland, our vice president of patient services, will know.
Attachment:HAC Analysis
Stakeholder Interviews
Troy Holland
Vice President of Patient Services
Its nice to meet you! Yep, Ive got those discharge stats. Im assuming youre confining your analysis to the last full year? If so, the number of discharges for last year was 10,000. That includes both adult and pediatric discharges.
What I dont have is information about nurse staffing or costs. For those, youll want to talk to Jackie, the chief nursing officer.
Jackie Sandoval
Chief Nursing Officer
Hello. I understand you need some data about our staff costs related to nursing. Ive got three numbers for you.
Our cost per nurse is $72,000. Now, thats an average of nurses and registered nurses.
Our cost perregisterednurse is $85,000.
Per licensed practical nurse, its $52,000. Those numbers include salary, benefits, and overhead.
You had asked about some other costs, but I dont have those. Youll want to talk to the CFO, Owen Welch.
Owen Welch
Chief Financial Officer
Hey, Ive only got a couple of minutes but heres what you asked about: Our cost per inpatient day is $2,600, and the penalty per HAC is $5,700.
Email Response
It looks like David has followed up with you about the data analysis project youre working on. Review David’s latest message to you and send a reply with your initial thoughts.
Email
From:David Brooks
Subject:HACs
Thanks for doing all that running around. Now that youve got the data analysis you need, Id like you to do some thinking about what results youre going to include in the presentation. Remember, its the board, not a bunch of number geeks. Youll want to give them the statistical results they need to make a decision, not just every bit of data we have.
Write down a list of numbers youre thinking about including in your presentation. We really need to make a data-driven recommendation to the board, and Id really appreciate your expertise. Thanks!
Reply
Subject:RE: HACs
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Conclusion
In this activity, you saw that while complicated analysis of data is an important step in guiding decisions at health care organizations, its not the only step. Decision makers need to understand how the data were collected, how variables are measured, and whether the analysis tools and techniques were appropriate.
