University Report: Applied Statistics for Healthcare Professionals

This report focuses on the application of statistics in healthcare, specifically addressing the use of epidemiological data. It begins by defining epidemiology and its role in understanding and improving public health, emphasizing the importance of data in identifying risk factors and disease patterns. The report then examines a case study involving a meningitis outbreak, illustrating how epidemiologists gather and analyze data to determine causes and implement preventative measures. Furthermore, it explores the impact of mobile devices and cloud services in healthcare, highlighting their roles in data collection, patient monitoring, and clinical practice. The report also references the use of data in diagnosing and treating patients, underscoring how technology and data analysis can enhance patient care and overall healthcare outcomes. References to supporting literature are included to provide context to the subject matter.

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Epidemiological Data and its use
Epidemiology is discipline which has an essential role to describe status of health,
analyse relationships among health and other hazardous agents and to identify the risk
factors. Diseases occur when outside agents have capability to cause injury or disease meet
host vulnerable to that agent. Epidemiology’s objective is contributing for fulfilment of
health of public. For improving population’s health status, knowledge generated by
epidemiology should be used. Epidemiology has produced wealth of the accumulated
experience for accessing specific agents and micro environments which might impact health
(Pedersen, et. al., 2017). Additionally, epidemiology does not equip in dealing with dialogue
among stakeholders of the scientific discipline.
In 2009, two serious meningitis’s cases took place at Fort Leonard Wood. This was
disease detectives’ time to work. Investigation identified the outbreak’s cause and lead in
interventions for preventing further cases related to the disease. Epidemiologists gathered
data about symptoms, laboratory testing, pervious medical history, recent treatments and
exam findings which training staff and trainees had received. Epidemiologists determined the
cases for meningitis and were able in ruling out the risk factors such as smoking, living on
specific floor of barracks and having illness symptoms. Epidemiologists used the things they
learned for preventing future outbreaks.
Mobile devices has changed several aspects for clinical practice and are used for
gathering healthcare and patient information. Application is used to assist health care
professionals regarding access and maintenance of healthcare, consulting and
communications. Information gathering and references, patient monitoring and management
and medical training and education (Chai‐Adisaksopha, et. al., 2015). File sharing and Cloud
services are beneficial to the organization in gathering and using the data for directing patient

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care. This collected data could be used for diagnose and treatment of the patients.
Applications could be useful as the data collected is used for better treatment of patients.

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References
Chai‐Adisaksopha, C., Hillis, C., Isayama, T., Lim, W., Iorio, A., & Crowther, M. (2015).
Mortality outcomes in patients receiving direct oral anticoagulants: a systematic
review and meta‐analysis of randomized controlled trials. Journal of Thrombosis and
Haemostasis, 13(11), 2012-2020.
Pedersen, A. B., Mikkelsen, E. M., Cronin-Fenton, D., Kristensen, N. R., Pham, T. M.,
Pedersen, L., & Petersen, I. (2017). Missing data and multiple imputation in clinical
epidemiological research. Clinical epidemiology, 9, 157.