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

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...

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Main Author: Fabri, Peter J. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40812-5
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.