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¶ … Statistics in the Hospital Setting
During the course of performing my professional duties at College Hospital, which is a psychiatric facility located in Cerritos, California, I encounter patients who are struggling to maintain some semblance of a normal life despite struggling with one or more mental illnesses or psychological impairments. College Hospital is a 187-bed, free-standing psychiatric care unit which is accredited by The Joint Commission and licensed by the California Department of Health Services, and part of my job is assist in providing a wide range of psychiatric services for a wide range of patient demographics. As the leader in Partial Hospitalization Programs throughout the greater Los Angeles and Orange County metropolitan areas, College Hospital relies on the accurate and efficient use of statistics to ensure positive patient outcomes.
An Example of Descriptive Statistics Used in My Workplace:
While working at College Hospital the use of descriptive statistics has become an increasingly important part of my professional life, simply because I continually need to read a wide range of scholarly journals on a variety of psychiatry-related subjects in order to remain effective. These journal articles typically review the findings of studies which employed questionnaire surveys or case notes, and descriptive statistics are used to separate the data into an organized structure which streamlines the interpretation process. Commonly used descriptive statistics I encounter while working, or while studying for...
Typically these simple tests of significance are used to infer wider suppositions from a data set, with the most commonly used tests being the ?2-test and the t-test. For example, one of the most commonly employed inferential statistics I have observed my superiors using at College Hosptial is the Kendall tau rank correlation coefficient, which "is a non-parametric statistic used to measure the degree of correspondence between two rankings and to assess the significance of this correspondence which also reliably correlates with human behavioral ratings and reading times" (Costea, et al., 2011). Unless I am capable of comprehending the way descriptive statistics are used within the bulk of psychiatry literature, it is impossible for me to properly apply inferential statistics to influence the treatment, medication, and care of actual patients.
The Four Levels of Measurement Used in My Workplace:
Nominal: In the psychiatric hospital setting nominal measurement is used on a daily basis to monitor…
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