Quantitative Decision-Making for Health Services Administration I

Catalog description

This course introduces Health Services Administration graduate students to statistical methods for decision making. Topics covered will be Operation Research, Break -Even Analysis, Probability Theory, Random Variables, Cybernetic and Statistical Process Control, Inventory Analysis, and Sampling. The applications will be on the management and control of health services. A user-friendly statistical program will be used for all calculations and estimations in ord er to emphasize intuitive reasoning. Students will have opportunity to work in teams.