Morton, Anthony Park 1933- creator author. Mengersen, Kerrie L. author. Playford, Geoffrey author. Whitby, Michael 1950- author. text bibliography Electronic books. Electronic books. enk 2013 monographic eng

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1 online resource. 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. Proportion -- Risk adjustment -- Cusum and related charts for binary data -- Introduction rate and count data -- Introduction, data, limitations of aggregated count data analysis -- Arranging data by weeks, months, quarters -- Multiple antibiotic-resistant organism (MRO) prevalence -- Overview of hospital quality improvement. Anthony Morton, Kerrie Mengersen, Geoffrey Playford, Michael Whitby. Includes bibliographical references and index. Hospitals Administration Statistical methods Hospital Administration Statistics as Topic Efficiency, Organizational Health services administration Hospital administration Statistics as topic MEDICAL Hospital Administration & Care Hospitals Administration Statistical methods RA971 362.11068 WX 150.1 Morton, Anthony Park, 1933- author. Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2013 (DLC) 2013008301 9781118639177 1118639170 9781118639160 1118639162 9781118639184 1118639189 9781118639153 1118639154 1118596307 9781118596302 2013009332 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118639153 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118639153 DLC 130312 20171024111828.0 ocn910620948 eng