Measurement and Analysis in Transforming Healthcare Delivery Volume 1: Quantitative Approaches in Health Systems Engineering /

• Main Author: Fabri, Peter J. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Health administration.; Medicine & Public Health.; Health Administration.

This volume provides the important concepts necessary for a physician to participate in a reengineering process, develop decision-making skills based on probability and logic rather than “rules,” and to measure and analyze meaningful outcomes of care delivery. This approach has been developed over t...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction to Measurement and Analysis
• Data and Types of Data
• Software for Analytics
• Measurement and Uncertainty
• Mathematical and Statistical Concepts in Data Analysis
• Analysis by Modeling Data
• Principles of Supervised Learning
• Unsupervised Machine Learning—Datasets Without Outcomes
• Survival Analysis
• Interpreting Outcomes: Cause and Effect and p-values
• Useful Tools.