Use the data below to calculate the Postoperative Mortality rate for Heartland Hospital during June. Express as a percent.  Round to two decimal places. Heartland Hospital June 20XX Live Discharges 500 Deaths 10                Within 10 days after surgery 3                More than 10 days after surgery 7 Number of Operations 504 Number of Patients Operated On 498

An HIT Program Director is studying her students’ exam performance.  She wants to know if students who take practice quizzes before the exam score higher on the exam than those who do not take practice quizzes. H0: There is no difference in exam scores between students who have completed practice quizzes and those who have not. Give an example of a Type I error.

The file Dow_data.xlsx contains monthly returns on 10 Dow stocks during a 20-year period. Which stock had the lowest average monthly return?

The ____________ is calculated as the square root of the variance and describes the deviation from mean of a frequency distribution.

In a normal distribution, what percent of data is within 2 SDs of the mean?

During the first quarter, St. Joseph’s Hospital had 22 inpatient deaths, 9 of whom were autopsied. Two of the 22 deaths were coroner’s cases, but 1 was autopsied by the hospital pathologist (included in the nine). In addition, the following bodies were brought to the hospital for autopsy: 2 former patients who died in the ED 1 former inpatient who died in a skilled nursing facility 2 former inpatients who died at home 1 patient who died during a round of outpatient chemotherapy What is the adjusted hospital autopsy rate? Express as a percent.  Round to two decimal places.

Good Samaritan Hospital is a 344-bed acute care facility.  As the Quality Manager, you are examining inpatient statistics for the month of April.  The hospital recorded 6 deaths and 876 live discharges in the month of April.  What is the gross (hospital) mortality rate for the month? Round to the nearest tenth.

In an extremely right-skewed distribution, the mean is less than the median.

You are the Coding Manager at ABC hospital.  You have 15 coders who report to you.  5 coders have used all their vacation days this year, 9 have used half their vacation days and 1 has used no vacation days.  Calculate the rate of coders who still have some remaining vacation days this year. Express as a percent.  Round to one decimal place.

What term is used to describe a probability distribution that has a finite number of possible values?