Importance of Understanding Statistical Concepts in Healthcare

The Importance and Uses of Statistics in Health Care
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January 27, 2020
Statistics is a branch of science that studies procedures in data collection and analysis and data interpretation. This is used to analyze the information gathered through quantitative or qualitative research and the results are applied to the subject matter it concerns in reality. This field uses mathematical equations such as solving for ratios and probabilities. The primary philosophies of statistics lie on uncertainty and variation. Uncertainty ensues when the results do not establish a definite answer while variation exists due to the difference in the approaches or systems used in investigations. On the other hand, probability, the most vital part of statistics, is responsible for the mathematical calculations CITATION Pie01 \l 1033 (Piegel, Schiller, Srinivasan, & LeVan, 2001).
Statistics can be applied in health and it is called health statistics. Here, the data are measured and interpreted to become a piece of evidence in testing a hypothesis. Furthermore, it is used by the World Health Organization (WHO) to predict and record the mortality and morbidity rates and risk factors. Also, WHO is responsible for data dissemination gathered using health statistics (World Health Organization, n.d.).
Importance of Statistics in Health
Statistics has significant contributions to health. These include the following: 1) Health statistics assist health providers in assessing the patients’ conditions and select the patients that need medical attention the most. Furthermore, it also helps clinicians to reserve an appointment for follow-up care.; 2) Health statistics ascertains the vital signs and disease signs and symptoms pattern recognition. This allows medical practitioners to make sound clinical judgments (CDC, 2013).; 3) It can also be used to calculate the frequency in charts regarding patients’ medications. For instance, the comprehensive data in patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) showed that 32% of patients had illusory fantasies are even clearer than the actual occurrences. Furthermore, these illusions and hallucinations are evoked twelve months after the first occurrence but the expressions and emotions felt are inconsistent (Piot-Ziegler, 2011, July). Acknowledging these data can pave a way to prioritize ICU patients in terms of mental health assessments.; 4)...