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Big data, better hospitals

Big data, better hospitals

Overcrowding in hospitals is one of the biggest challenges facing our healthcare systems. In order to reduce hospital waiting times, the Patient Admission Prediction Tool (PAPT) uses historical data to predict how many patients are expected to arrive at the Emergency Department every day of the year.

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Overcrowding in hospitals is one of the biggest challenges facing our healthcare systems. In order to reduce hospital waiting times, the Patient Admission Prediction Tool (PAPT) uses historical data to predict how many patients are expected to arrive at the Emergency Department every day of the year.

The PAPT is formulated by collecting and using vast data-sets about patient admissions and discharges. It is used by hospitals to manage their staff and physical resources. How accurate is it? Should all hospitals be using the PAPT?

Yes

Yes

Name Class Section Priority
Document Teacher Notes File 1
Document Activity 1: Errors and the powers of percentages File 1
Document Activity 1: Errors and the power of percentages - Data set File 1
Document Activity 2: What Happened? File 1
Document Activity 2: What happened? - Data set File 1
Document Activity 2: What happened? - Entry forms File 1
Document Activity 2: What happened? - Number lines 60-120 File 1
Document Activity 2: What happened? - Number lines blank File 1
Document Activity 3: Difficult to easy File 1
Document Activity 3: Difficult to easy - Which graph is best? File 1
Document Acitivity 3: Difficult to easy - Heat map data set File 1
Document Activity 3: Difficult to easy - How to create a heat map in Excel File 1
Document Activity 4: Waiting, waiting File 1
Document Activity 4: Waiting, waiting - Hourly admissions in July File 1
Document Activity 4: Waiting, waiting - Exploring queues File 1