Health care statistics is collection, organization, analysis and interpretation of data, for improving health care facility at the

regional level as well as globally. It provides information about the health status of people and identifies risk factors as well as challenges that a population is facing in terms of health care. Thus act as a measuring scale to identify extend and nature of a disease or the success and failure rate of any health development program in any community. There are different sources of health care statistics; population census is one of them. It is defined as estimation of total number of population and is taken at the state level simply by counting. There are two types of population census one is defacto (person is counted at a place he or she is found) while the other is dejure (a person is counted at a place he or she lives). Since population of the community is considered as a base reference for determining and evaluating health conditions, we may label census as one of the primary sources for heath statistics. Another source for obtaining data is vital statistics. Vital statistics is basically a record of important events in an individuals life such as birth, marriage, death, and divorce. Birth, death, fetal deaths and induced abortions are important indicators of health status in a community; hence health facilities keep a record of all these variables and generally issue certificates for births, fetal deaths, abortions, and occasionally death certificates. All states have laws that require this information. The certificates are reported to the individual state registrars and are maintained permanently CALCULATING PERCENTAGES AVERAGES AND ROUNDING NUMBERS ROUNDING NUMBERS Rounding numbers is more frequently used when the figure is in decimal form. The main aim is to reduce digits in a number while maintaining its value. As a result what you get is an approximate value which may be less accurate but easier to manipulate. How to round up a number For instance you have been asked to round up 39 Now if the last digit is greater than 5 you will add 1 in the prior digit [rounding up] and round up the last digit to zero in this case the answer will be 40. Take another example of 61 If the last digit is less than 5 you will leave the prior digit as it is and round up the last digit to zero [rounding down] hence the answer will be 60 PERCENTAGE [symbol %]

"Percent" comes from the Latin Per Centum. The Latin word Centum means 100."Percentage" is the "result obtained by multiplying a quantity by a percent". Calculating percentage 50% off on a product means the product is now going to be sold at half the original price. How this percentage was calculated? Suppose this product was of 1000 bucks and the shopkeeper cut its price to 500 bucks. First you are going to divide the new price by the original one the answer will be 500/1000= 0.5 now to make it a percentage you will multiply it by 100 i.e. 0.5*100 is 50%

Averages: You calculate the average by adding up all the values, then divide by how many values. Average represent central tendency in any given data i.e. where the data is concentrated most. Calculating an average For example a health facility wants to estimate the number of patients visiting OPD on an average every week. On Sunday Thursday Friday and Saturday the number of patients visiting OPD were 30 while on Monday Tuesday Wednesday the count was 10 20 25 respectively. First you are going to calculate total number of patients 30+30+30+30+10+20+25=175 now you will divide it by 7 i.e. total numbers of days in a week; the average patients that have visited OPD will be 25.

Report A: Average Weekly Patient Discharge (Rounded to a Whole Number) Day of Week Sunday Monday Saturday Total Average # Discharged 25 10 # Discharged 21 14 19 XX 21 XX 39 24 30 28 33 Tuesday 29 Wednesday Thursday Friday 22 42

First week Total number of patients 19+33+29+42+25+10= 180 Now to calculate the average total number of patients discharge in first week is going to be divided by the number of days in a week i.e. 158/7 = 25.7 Rounding up to 26 patients on average Second week Total number of patients 21+39+24+30+28+21+14=177 Average 177/7 = 25.28 Rounding up to 25 patients

Report B: General Hospital Quarterly Coder Accuracy Report: January March 20XX January Coder a 550 537 97.6% February 447 392 87.7% ,march 391 375 wrong92.4% correct95.90 % Total 1388 1304 93.9%

Coder b

582 553 95.0%

549 501 wrong87.2% correct 91.25% 432 388 89.8%

487 405 83.2%

1618 1459 wrong94.0% correct90.17 % 1619 1486 91.8%

Coder c

564 501 88.8%

623 597 95.8%

Coder d

601 552 wrong 89.1% correct 91.8% 2297 2143 93.3%

589 542 wrong94.5% correct92.02 % 2017 1823 90.4

568 533 93.8%

1758 1627 92.5%

Total

2069 1910 wrong89.8% correct92.3%

6383 5876 92.1%