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Module 7: Statistics

Delivery of Health Care Statistics: Hospitals, Physicians
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Professional associations and the research, publications, and resources they produce are often the best place to search for information on physicians and hospitals. The American Hospital Association produces an annual compilation of hospital statistics (called, appropriately, Hospital Statistics) and the American Medical Association produces a series of reports on physicians including socioeconomic and manpower data and physician characteristics and practice characteristics.

Exercise:
  1. Find the mean age of all patients who stayed at community hospitals in 2002.
  2. Prevalence of overweight adults in the U.S.