Health Services Research and Analytics Using Excel (eBook)

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction to Healthcare Data and the Role of Excel®

1.1 Context

1.2 Approach Advocated

1.3 Outline of the Book

1.4 Competency Development

1.5 Summary

1.6 Discussion Questions

2. Working in Excel® and Importing Healthcare Data

2.1 Sources of Healthcare Data

2.2 Data Used for Decision-Making

2.3 Excel in Actionable Insights

2.4 Importing Data Into Excel

2.5 Editing Cells and Content

2.6 Managing Data

2.7 Managing Add-Ins in Excel

2.8 Competency Development

2.9 Summary

2.10 Discussion Questions

2.11 Practice Problems

3. Identifying, Categorizing, and Presenting Healthcare Data Using Excel®

3.1 Getting Started

3.2 Identifying Your Data

3.3 Using Pivot Tables

3.4 Pivot Charts

3.5 Using Chart Types in Excel

3.6 Considerations in Using Different Chart Types

3.7 Competency Development

3.8 Summary

3.9 Discussion Questions

3.10 Practice Problems

4. Setting Bounds for Healthcare Data and Hypothesis Testing Using Excel®

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Setting Bounds on Data

4.3 Sample and Population

4.4 Measure and Variation

4.5 Confidence Interval

4.6 Hypothesis Testing

4.7 Z-Test

4.8 Comparing Two Samples Using the Z-Test

4.9 Competency Development

4.10 Summary

4.11 Discussion Questions

4.12 Practice Problems

5. Testing and Comparing Means of Healthcare Datasets Using Excel®

5.1 t-Test

5.2 Assumptions for the t-Test

5.3 Example for t-Test

5.4 t-Test Two-Sample Mean Assuming Equal Variance

5.5 t-Test Two-Sample Mean Assuming Unequal Variance

5.6 t-Test Paired Two-Sample Mean

5.7 Competency Development

5.8 Summary

5.9 Discussion Questions

5.10 Practice Problems

6. Checking Patterns in Healthcare Data Using Scatterplots, Correlations, and Regressions in Excel®

6.1 Exploring Relationships and Patterns

6.2 Scatterplot and Correlation

6.3 Regression

6.4 Single Linear Regression

6.5 Multiple Regression

6.6 Revisiting Missing Values

6.7 Competency Development

6.8 Summary

6.9 Discussion Questions

6.10 Practice Problems

7. Visualization and Spatial Analysis of Healthcare Data Using 3D Maps in Excel®

7.1 Why and When to Map Data

7.2 Converting Data to Tables

7.3 Turn to 3D Maps

7.4 Steps in Visualizing 3D Maps

7.5 Working With Scenes

7.6 Including Time Element

7.7 Production of Tour

7.8 Competency Development

7.9 Summary

7.10 Discussion Questions

7.11 Practice Problems

8. Using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) in Healthcare Datasets to Compare Groups and Test Hypotheses in Excel®

8.1 ANOVA

8.2 Creating Categories

8.3 Stating Hypotheses

8.4 Getting Data Ready in Excel

8.5 Interpreting ANOVA Output

8.6 Competency Development

8.7 Summary

8.8 Discussion Questions

8.9 Practice Problems

9. Text Analysis of Healthcare Data Using MeaningCloud Add-In in Excel®

9.1 Qualitative Data in Healthcare

9.2 Qualitative Analysis and Excel

9.3 MeaningCloud Add-In

9.4 Text Classification

9.5 Sentiment Analysis

9.6 Topic Extraction

9.7 Text Clustering

9.8 Competency Development

9.9 Summary

9.10 Discussion Questions

9.11 Practice Problems

10. Sampling and Research Design Using Healthcare Data in Excel®

10.1 Research Driven by Questions

10.2 Sampling

10.3 Probability Sampling

10.4 Nonprobability Sampling

10.5 Research Design

10.6 Competency Development

10.7 Summary

10.8 Discussion Questions

10.9 Practice Problems

11. Video Tutorials and Answers to Practice Problems Using Healthcare Datasets in Excel®

12. List of Select Sources of Healthcare Data

13. Glossary

Index