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Health care statistics

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write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

There are many users, sources, and purposes for health care statistics. One of the significant sources of health care statistics is the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP, pronounced “H-Cup”). As the HCA, you mention this to your new CEO, but he says he is not familiar with it and asks you to put together a short description of it on how you and your colleagues make use of the data and information provided.
You will prepare a 400–600-word description of HCUP for the CEO. Include the following in your description:

1–2-sentence introduction to HCUP, including the agency that administers the project and its purpose
What types of data and reports are provided and who uses this resource.

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You are a health care administrator (HCA) for a community hospital named Choice Hospital. As the HCA, you are working with new staff who will assist you with data collection and analysis for tracking and benchmarking performance in several key areas of the facility. As you work with the new staff, you will help them understand the meaning of health statistics and the external resources available for locating health care statistics by completing the following:

Define health care statistics.
Explain the purpose of collecting and reviewing healthcare statistics
Identify 2 organizations that use health care statistics at the local, state, and national levels (e.g., CMS hospital system)
Identify 2 sources that are available to obtain healthcare statistics