Nick T G, Williams J M, Barker J R
University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, USA.
Top Health Inf Manage. 1998 Feb;18(3):8-17.
A primary focus in the current context of the health care industry is the measurement of outcomes. Outcomes research, although inclusive of the use of advanced statistical analyses, can often be conducted using more easily understood analytical techniques such as descriptive analysis and graphical display of data. The article addresses the description and analysis of patient change scores on the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) from 745 stroke rehabilitation inpatients. Display and discussion of percentiles, cross-tabulations, scatter plots, and side-by-side box plots are used in this case study of describing outcomes.
当前医疗保健行业背景下的一个主要重点是结果的衡量。结果研究虽然包括使用先进的统计分析，但通常可以使用更容易理解的分析技术来进行，如描述性分析和数据的图形展示。本文论述了对745名中风康复住院患者的功能独立性测量（FIM）中患者变化分数的描述与分析。在这个描述结果的案例研究中，使用了百分位数、交叉表、散点图和并列箱线图的展示与讨论。
