Statistical methods for hospital monitoring with R

• Main Authors: Morton, Anthony Park, 1933- (Author), Mengersen, Kerrie L. (Author), Playford, Geoffrey (Author), Whitby, Michael, 1950- (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley, 2013.
• Series: Statistics in practice.
• Subjects: Hospitals > Administration > Statistical methods.; Hospital Administration.; Statistics as Topic.; Efficiency, Organizational.; Health services administration.; Hospital administration.; Statistics as topic.; MEDICAL > Hospital Administration & Care.; Electronic books.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9781118639177; 1118639170; 9781118639160; 1118639162; 9781118639184; 1118639189; 9781118639153; 1118639154; 1118596307; 9781118596302
• DOI: 10.1002/9781118639153

Hospitals monitoring is becoming more complex and is increasing both because staff want their data analysed and because of increasing mandated surveillance. This book provides a suite of functions in R, enabling scientists and data analysts working in infection management and quality improvement departments in hospitals, to analyse their often non-independent data which is frequently in the form of trended, over-dispersed and sometimes auto-correlated time series; this is often difficult to analyse using standard office software. This book provides much-needed guidance on data analy.