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Assignment Objectives:Meet CAHIIM Curriculum requirement for Bachelor Degree Domain III. Informatics, Analytics and Data Use Subdomain III.C. Analytics and Decision Support Section 4. Ana

Assignment Objectives:

  1. Meet CAHIIM Curriculum requirement for Bachelor Degree
    1. Domain III. Informatics, Analytics and Data Use
    2. Subdomain III.C. Analytics and Decision Support
    3. Section 4. Analyze clinical data to identify trends that demonstrate quality, safety, and effectiveness of healthcare
    4. Competencies: Descriptive statistics  o Mean, standard deviation, ranges, percentiles

Assignment Purpose:

To understand the calculation and use of attack rates and descriptive statistics in epidemiology

Assignment Description

Community members who attended the Annual Neighborhood picnic earlier today are experiencing illness which they believe is related to food served at the picnic. Using the information below:

1). Calculate the attack rate(s). Show your work.

2). Determine which food is mostly likely to have caused the illness?

Number of People Who Ate Specified   Food

Number of People Who Do Not Eat   Specified Food

Ill

Well

Total

Ill

Well

Total

Ham

29

17

46

17

12

29

Spinach

26

17

43

20

12

32

Potatoes

23

14

37

24

14

38

Salad

18

10

28

28

19

47

Rolls

21

16

37

25

13

38

During the investigation process, investigators questioned each person who became ill and who also ate ham and/or potatoes, howmany slices of ham and how many potatoes they ate. Using the information below:

3) Calculate the mean, median, mode, and range of the amount of ham and the amount of potatoes.

Number of slices of ham eaten:

1, 3, 4, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 4, 5, 3, 2, 4, 1, 2, 6, 2, 4, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1, 2, 2

Number of potatoes eaten:

4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 1, 9, 6, 8, 4, 10, 14, 6, 4, 3, 2, 7, 3, 1, 7, 5, 9, 4, 15, 5, 5

4) For each food item, calculate the total percentage of people who became ill. (Total number of people who became ill divided by the total number of people).

5). Discuss your findings and explain how the study of epidemiology and use of descriptive statistics can assist in disease prevention. Submit your response as an APA page (at least one page) not counting the title page and reference page.

6). Submit all parts for grading.

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