Final Project, Part III

Implications and Limitations of Research

To prepare for this third Final Project assignment, review the findings from your Part II Final Project assignment.

To complete the assignment, write a 1- to 2-page paper in which you:

Analyze the implications of the findings from your Part II Final Project assignment.

Based on these findings, explain what actions you might take as a health care professional working in a hospital setting.

Identify and briefly discuss the limitations of this research.

Your written assignments must follow APA guidelines. Be sure to support your work with specific citations from this week’s Learning Resources and additional scholarly sources as appropriate. Refer to the Pocket Guide to APA Style to ensure your in-text citations and reference list are correct.

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Running Head: Final Project Part 2
Week 7
Shaun Billingslea
February 18, 2012
Walden University- Research and Program Evaluation (HINF – 6205 – 11)
INTRODUCTION
Statistics has come to play an important role in almost every field of life and human activity. There is hardly any field where statistical data or statistical methods are used for one purpose or the other our arrival in this world and departure from here are recorded as statistical data somewhere and in same form.
We have to find the relationship between Total operating expense_05 as a dependent variable with respect to other independent variables. We need to analysis what is the effect of changing one unit in one variable and how the dependent variable behaves with the change. We need to find the significant variables who are actually affecting the dependent variable. We need to find the regression equation with the help of regression analysis so that we can make better predictions using the data and available information.
DATA
Here in this report we have a data for 81 subjects with 0 missing values. The dependent and independent variables are as follow:
Total operating expense_05 (Dependent variable)
Staffed beds_05
Medicare Days_05
Medicaid Days_05
Total Surgeries_05
RN FTE_05
Patient days_05/(Licensed beds_05 x 365)
Ownership
System Membership
Rural/Urban
Teaching Affiliation
Age 65 Plus 2005
Crime rate/100,000 population (2005)
Uninsured 2005
These all variables are scale variables except Ownership, System Membership, Rural/Urban and Teaching Affiliation
METHODLOGY
Here we can use many statistical methods to analyses this data. The main methods which can be used in this analysis are known as Descriptive methods, dispersion, correctional analysis, multiple regression analysis,
ANALYSIS
We have done the analysis using the above specified methods. For all the independent variables the descriptive statistics is obtained and multiple regression is obtained using all the…

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