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E-Book, Englisch, 432 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Statistics in Practice

Morton / Mengersen / Playford Statistical Methods for Hospital Monitoring with R

E-Book, Englisch, 432 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Statistics in Practice

ISBN: 978-1-118-63916-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)



Hospitals monitoring is becoming more complex and is increasingboth because staff want their data analysed and because ofincreasing mandated surveillance. This book provides a suiteof functions in R, enabling scientists and data analysts working ininfection management and quality improvement departments inhospitals, to analyse their often non-independent data which isfrequently in the form of trended, over-dispersed and sometimesauto-correlated time series; this is often difficult to analyseusing standard office software.
This book provides much-needed guidance on data analysis using Rfor the growing number of scientists in hospital departments whoare responsible for producing reports, and who may have limitedstatistical expertise.
This book explores data analysis using R and is aimed atscientists in hospital departments who are responsible forproducing reports, and who are involved in improving safety.Professionals working in the healthcare quality and safetycommunity will also find this book of interest
Statistical Methods for Hospital Monitoring with R:
* Provides functions to perform quality improvement and infectionmanagement data analysis.
* Explores the characteristics of complex systems, such asself-organisation and emergent behaviour, along with theirimplications for such activities as root-cause analysis and thePareto principle that seek few key causes of adverse events.
* Provides a summary of key non-statistical aspects of hospitalsafety and easy to use functions.
* Provides R scripts in an accompanying web site enablinganalyses to be performed by the reader http://www.wiley.com/go/hospital_monitoring
* Covers issues that will be of increasing importance in thefuture, such as, generalised additive models, and complex systems,networks and power laws.
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Anthony Morton and Geoffrey Playford, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
Kerrie Mengersen, Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Michael Whitby, Greenslopes Specialist Centre, Queensland, Australia


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