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Analytics Study Questions
Directions: answer the question, and provide your rationale for your answer.
1. The quality improvement manager compared HCAHPS scores from last year to this year, and the
organization scored lower in several areas. The information will be shared with administrators and
follow-up projects planned.
This information tells you that:
a) Patients with psychiatric disorders did not receive appropriate follow-up.
b) Patient satisfaction scores provided by hospitalized patients have decreased.
c) Patients receiving care at outpatient facilities are unhappy with services.
d) Physicians are unhappy with reimbursement scales.
2. Medicare and other third-party payers require specific documentation on patients with chronic
conditions. This is difficult for busy providers, particularly those in specific specialties who are often
overbooked due to physician shortages. Why is CLABSI data tracked?
3. The CEO of a multi-state hospital system is analyzing costs of CABG surgery across the 13-hospital
system. He is particularly interested in stratifying the larger corporations in their region who have
robust employee health plans to determine their payments and performing a comparative study to
see how many employers have paid for their employees to have this surgery in the past five years.
Where would the CEO find this data?

4. Medical students are performing a research project in their city on STI trends in the past five years in
patients aged 15 through 19. They will seek to determine the correlation between education
provided at schools and incidences of STI. They also need to track the trends for the past five years
in STI prevalence. Where will they obtain prevalence data?
5. If the medical students decided to identify the percentage of cases of STI for each specific age group
(15 year olds, 16 year olds, etc.) this would be an example of
a) Predictive modeling
b) Statistical modeling
c) Pearsons correlation
d) Statistical significance
6. The admissions clerk is assisting a patient checking in for day surgery. As the patient information is
being gathered, what data source will be used to determine if the patient has been seen at the
hospital previously and already has a unique medical record number?