Data Driven Decision Making Template

PROMPT

RESPONSE

A.

Describe a real-world business situation that could be addressed by collecting and analyzing a set of data.

Adverse patient incidents such as surgical misadventures (i.e., operating on the wrong limb) and falls represent a major but preventable problem for all tertiary healthcare facilities, including Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical centers.

A1.

Summarize one question or decision relevant to the real-world business situation you will answer by collecting and analyzing a set of data.

Which VA medical centers experience the highest rates of preventable adverse patient events such as falls by ward and shift?

A2.

Explain why the situation or question would benefit from a data analysis.

Current estimates indicate that as many as 180,000 deaths occur each year in the United States due to medical care errors such as adverse patient incidents (Patient safety, 2017). In addition, adverse patient incidents can also increase the length of inpatient stays and the overall costs of healthcare. Therefore, identifying the VA medical centers that experience the highest...

In this regard, Madadizadeh and Asar (2016) report that, In healthcare, researchers are mainly interested in examining the impact of various factors on the behavior of a random phenomenon. One of the useful tools to achieve this goal is the use of statistical models such as…