It covers the personal and legal issues of patient care, as well as the business practices that are required for a successful medical practice. It develops knowledge and skills applicable to a company or a nonprofit organization. 201 is designed to help clinicians and administrators understand how statistics is used, not to provide training for a statistician. The student will gain an appreciation of the proper use and limitation of statistics and statistical terms often found in textbooks, research studies, and business or government planning. The major emphasis is to introduce inferential statistics through probability theory.
Statistics is a science used by health care researchers, sociologists, marketers and planners.
When understood, statistics can provide information that can benefit decision-makers. This course is intended to provide students information concerning the important role that laws, statutory and regulatory, play in determining health care delivery. In addition, the student will gain an awareness of the role that administrative procedures have for health care organizations and clinicians. This course, while not intended as a substitute for competent legal counsel, will benefit the student from these principles when preparing to engage in health care delivery. The student will develop skills for analyzing political, legislative, and legal aspects of health care.