Data Tasks for Oct 24

1) Today, the teams will fix the issues with their data analysis
Next, the teams will present findings from this work.
What do we keep for final graphics? What avenues are not promising?
2) National context
We need to place the Fayetteville and other Arkansas hospital operations in national context.
Compare the pending wait time data for the Arkansas hospitals to this
Write a headline and a paragraph comparing these hospitals to this national standard.
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Homework: Quality of Care

We have looked at wait times. Now we will look at survey data of what veterans say about their care

https://www.accesstoshep.va.gov/Main/Results

https://www.accesstoshep.va.gov/Main/getRawData?location=*&format=csv

For homework, download this data and visualize the survey data for Fayetteville, Little Rock, Memphis and Shreveport. Which one had the worst satisfaction rating?

Post one graphic and a brief caption on WordPress by 11:59 pm Wednesday.

 

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This survey is measuring  Survey of Healthcare Experiences of Patients (SHEP) data. Find out more about it here:

 https://www.va.gov/oig/54/reports/VAOIG-09-01446-37.pdf

https://www.healthdata.gov/dataset/veterans-health-administration-survey-healthcare-experiences-patients-shep

https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/HospitalQualityInits/Downloads/HospitalHCAHPSFactSheet201007.pdf

After exploring this above, there is a second and more detailed version of this data to examine:

https://data.medicare.gov/Hospital-Compare/Veterans-Health-Administration-Survey-of-Healthcar/gesgpgbr/data