Medical statistics

study, we had to first identify the variables of interest, the population, the sample, the parameters and statistics of the dataset. The variable of interest for this study is tip amounts, as that is what the owner of Sofrittos is analyzing. The population of the data set is tips received by Sofrittos waiters and waitresses, while the sample is the 80 tables of diners collected from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The parameter of the study is average tip amounts at Sofrittos and the statistic is the tip amounts of the 80 tables found from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The scientific question that we are addressing is what is the correlation between the amount of tips with variables:…

A Look at 4 Medical Malpractice Statistics Medical errors claim nearly 10 percent of the population, a revelation that, in part, led to current health care reforms. [1] Care providers can prevent many of these deaths with better coordination and improved organizational performance. To date, improving safety has proved difficult for health care organizations due to a discipline wide lack of direction in research medical errors. Medical Errors That Cause Mortalities in the United States In the…

(AIHW, 2010). Furthermore, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (2013) observed that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were twice as likely to suffer from circulatory disease, including CHD; as illustrated in Figure 4, CHD was highly prevalent in Indigenous Australians in comparison to non-Indigenous Australians for all age categories, except “55 and over” (ABS, 2013). As highlighted by Gray, Brown and Thompson (2012) the disparity ten years ago, where Indigenous…

Additionally, the African American population as a whole have higher rates of various illnesses such as hypertension, HIV, and STDs (Guerra, 2013). Thus, African American adult women can be more susceptible to developing disease. From an economic point of view, the rate of education in African American women in 2010 was 21.4%, lower than that of Caucasians, and that, consequently, lead to lower lifetime incomes (Guerra, 2013). The impacts of these choices have lasting impacts on the life and…

Key words used are: falls, systemic review, and aged. Inclusion criteria for randomized control trials (RCTs) are: 60 years or over participants or with stroke, Parkinson’s disease, and other medical condition, living in community, hospitals, or care homes, and comparison of multiple intervention from single, multifactorial, or no intervention. The authors used the NHS Centre for Review and Dissemination protocol that is located at the Peninsula Collaboration for Applied Research and Care…

There are associations between the materialistic/structural explanation and the cultural behavioural explanation. The cultural explanation suggests that the social distribution of poor health is linked to differences in individual behaviours and to different groups’ attitudes towards their health (Daykin, 2001). The Stroke Foundation of NZ (2010) suggests that people who are subject to a greater degree of disadvantage were estimated to have about a 60% increased risk of stroke when compared with…

between 1968 and 2011 [4]. More specifically, the decline in the mortality rate occurred in the late 1960s, where these changes were most evident in males and females aged 55-64 and 65-74 years, respectively [5]. Figures 3 and 4 (Page 2) show that the mortality rate in men aged 35-44 and 45-54 years declined at a decreasing rate, in contrast to older men, where the mortality rate had increased [5]. In women, however, the rate of overall decline had only been hindered in the 45-54 age category,…

In clinical trials, in order to understand the results of the trial we need to compare the risk of bad outcomes in patients receiving the intervention and those receiving the control. The most common methods used in expressing information about treatment options and risk reductions are absolute risk, absolute risk reduction, relative risk and relative risk reduction. Absolute risk reduction (ARR) or Risk difference (RD) is the most practical and useful method to interpret research results and…

from clinical trials and absolute risks from epidemiologic studies will be used to estimate the attributable risks of warfarin use in a representative population of drug users. In this study we are going to estimate the attributable risks for both the beneficial and harmful effects of warfarin in nonalveolar AF. Attributable risk, is the part of the observed risk that occurs over a particular time period due to exposure. A benefit-risk simulation is going to be employed to estimate the net…

treatment after significant changes in payment. In the former article, the issue seems to be pay cuts as maternal mortality in Texas skyrockets after cuts to Planned Parenthood, however, the author offers another biologic explanation “…cardiac problems. The second leading cause: drug overdoses. Hemorrhages and blood transfusion were the biggest factors associated with severe complications.” The author mentions that the cases that lead to increasing maternal mortality were “bad,” cases where the…