C207 Task 1

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Data-Driven Decision Making Task 1 Project Waiver or Release Statement (Prompt A1) Student name: Julie Henson ID number: 000821212 Date: 1/28/2022 PROMPT RESPONSE A. The real-world business position we will be analyzing is whether a surgical services team is able to provide surgical case turnover times that are within the national norm. The information being gathered is from the institution's last year of surgical cases in 2021. A1. See above A1a. N/A A2. Is there a considerable difference between average surgical case turnover times and the standard surgical case turnover time of 15 minutes? A3. Analyzing this real-world business situation would benefit the institution by revealing the case turnover times for future use to improve case turnover efficiency, if need be, and to ensure the surgical team is functioning efficiently. If the turnover times are below average or more than the 15-minute standard, the data could be utilized to improve the turnover times by utilizing ideas to increase the turnover and a performance improvement measure could be put into place. A4. Surgical case turnover times from the institution for the year of 2021 will be utilized to collect data. A minimum of 30 surgical case turnovers will be collected from the institution to ensure reliability of the data. A5. A minimum of 30 case turnover times will be collected from the surgical case log for the institution. The times will be gathered in minutes and randomly picked throughout the year. A6. The statistical method that will be used to examine the data acquired is the one sample t-Test Analysis. This method will provide credible proof as to whether surgical case turnover times are within the average 15-minute range by comparing the mean.
A6a. This data analysis technique was selected to demonstrate whether surgical case turnover times were within range of the average 15- minute standard. The one sample t-Test is an appropriate choice for analysis of this data because we can use the mean of the data collected to compare with the average standard time mean. B. N/A
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