TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morton,Anthony Park
AU  - Mengersen,Kerrie L.
AU  - Playford,Geoffrey
AU  - Whitby,Michael
TI  - Statistical methods for hospital monitoring with R
T2  - Statistics in practice
SN  - 9781118639177
AV  - RA971 
U1  - 362.11068 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Chichester, West Sussex
PB  - Wiley
KW  - Hospitals
KW  - Administration
KW  - Statistical methods
KW  - Hospital Administration
KW  - Statistics as Topic
KW  - Efficiency, Organizational
KW  - Health services administration
KW  - Hospital administration
KW  - Statistics as topic
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Hospital Administration & Care
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118639153
ER  -