Target: 

· Analyze health care data using statistics to increase operational effectiveness and efficiency.

For this assignment, students will be given  data from quantitative analysis and will be asked to analyze it using Excel, RStuido (BONUS points)

Data set:

Minnesota Healthcare Database.xlsx

Medicare National Data by County

MN Hospital Report Data by Care Unit FY2013

MN HCCIS Imaging Procedures 2013

MEPS Dental Files

MEPS Inpatient Stay Database

Students will develop an analysis report, in five main sections, including introduction, research method (research questions/objective, data set, research method, and analysis), results, conclusion and health policy recommendations. This is a 5-6 page individual project report.

Here are the main steps for this assignment.

Step 1: Students require to submit the topic using topic selection discussion forum by the end of week 1 and wait for instructor approval.

Step 2: Develop the research question and

Step 3:  Run the analysis using EXCEL (RStudio for BONUS points) and report the findings using the assignment instruction.

The Report Structure:

Start with the

1.Cover page (1 page, including running head).

Please look at the example  http://www.apastyle.org/manual/related/sample-experiment-paper-1.pdf  (you can download the file from the class) and  http://www.umgc.edu/library/libhow/apa_tutorial.cfm  to learn more about the APA style.

In the title page include:

· Title, this is the approved topic by your instructor.

· Student name

· Class name

· Instructor name

· Date

2.Introduction

Introduce the problem or topic being investigated. Include relevant background information, for example;

· Indicates why this is an issue or topic worth researching;

· Highlight how others have researched this topic or issue (whether quantitatively or qualitatively), and

· Specify how others have operationalized this concept and measured these phenomena

Note: Introduction should not be more than one or two paragraphs.