Historical Incidences of the Application of Statistics in Healthcare

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Statistics have demonstrated their influence on the healthcare industry for years. Hagan (2018) indicates that healthcare providers have exploited data to establish disease trends, monitor outbreaks, and compare them in different geographical regions. Wild et al. (2018) also indicate that nurses, health workers, and physicians have been using statistics to estimate disease risks in populations. The continued evolution of data applications ushered in an era of widespread statistical influence where healthcare providers and administrators would use it to monitor expert performance in hospital settings. Other than these aspects, statistics dominated in tracking sensitive care metrics in individual patients and populations. Hagan (2018) indicates that the applications have increased, leading to the predictive capabilities in the more sophisticated big data statistical applications. Thus, statistics have remained a fundamental component of determining the quality of care throughout history.
            Specific incidences illustrate the reliability and importance of statistics in the healthcare sector. For instance, Morabia (2018) describes the Influenza Task Force of 1918 spearheaded by Rup...