MAT 543 Health Services Administration

MAT 543 WEEK 7 EXAM 2· Question 1 What is analytic forecasting useful for predicting? · Question 2 A manager who is effective with forecasting will be able to do what? · Question 3

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MAT 543 WEEK 7 DiscussionWeek 7 Discussion "Decision Analysis"Please respond to the following: Compare the primary strengths and weaknesses of cost-benefit analysis (CBA), cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA), and cost-utility analysis (CUA). Give your opinion on which method you believe to be the most effective in economic evaluation. Using the umbrella decision-making example on page 198 of the textbook, suppose the pro

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MAT 543 WEEK 6 DISCUSSIONWeek 6 Discussion "Capacity Analysis and Queing Theory"Please respond to the following: Argue why capacity analysis is important in a health services environment. Provide one (1) example of this importance in a health services environment to support your argument. Evaluate the importance of applications of queuing theory in a health services environment. Provide one (1) example of this importa

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MAT 543 WEEK 6 HomeworkWeek 6 HomeworkHomework Chapter 8: Exercises 8-1 through 8-5 (page 155 of the text) Chapter 9: Exercises 9-1 and 9-2 (page 174 of the text) REAL WORLD SCENARIO An occupational health clinic does two general types of visits, each involving the direct actions of a receptionist/billing clerk, a registered nurse who is also abl

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MAT 543 WEEK 5 DiscussionWeek 5 Discussion "Sensitivity Analysis and Regression"Please respond to the following: Compare the major strengths and weaknesses of the forecasting models presented in Chapter 6. Outline the primary conditions in which regression is a useful and applicable forecasting tool. Provide one (1) example of such a condition to support your answer. Bottom of Form

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MAT 543 WEEK 5 Case Study 1Week 5 Case Study 1Case Study 1:ForecastingUsing the Northern College Health Services visit volume in Appendix 6-1 on page 113 of the textbook, for this assignment, you will be providing a forecast of the number of clinic visits for November 2008 using the average change, confidence interval, average percent change, moving averages, and exponential smoothing forecasting methods. Use the Internet or Strayer Library

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MAT 543 WEEK 4 HOMEWORKWeek 4 HomeworkHomework Chapter 5: Exercises 5-1, 5-3, 5-5, and 5-6 (page 87 of the text) REAL WORLD SCENARIO Molly Adel is the director of University Health Services for Northern College, a large liberal arts college in the northeast. Northern College Health Services serves undergraduate and graduate students who live both o

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MAT 543 WEEK 4 EXAM 1· Question 1 Capacity for a specific period of time – such as an hour, shift, day, week, month, or year – represents which concept? · Question 2 Some health care management methods in use today have their origins of management and productiveness relating to whi

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MAT 543 WEEK 4 DISCUSSIONWeek 4 Discussion "Forecasting"Please respond to the following: Compare and contrast the major strengths and weaknesses of analytic and nonanalytic forecasting. Provide one (1) example of each method being used in a real-world scenario to support your answer. Discuss the importance of the four (4) guiding principles of forecasting. Next, select one (1) principle and discuss how to apply it in a

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MAT 543 WEEK 3 HomeworkWeek 3 Homework Homework Chapter 3: Exercise 3-3 (page 61 of the text) Chapter 4: Exercise 4-1 through 4-4 (page 72 of the text) Flow Chart: To Complete an Acceptable Term PaperAs can be seen from this example, more detail could have been added by expanding the number of steps in this chart. The example could be considered a Level I or macro chart with other more detailed charts (Level II) to cover each i

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