Application Exercise

WEEK 8-A
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NAME
USC ID

1 Kiran Krishnamurthi 9282023599

2 Nichole Kordonsky 8726725446
3 Bengy Mitchell 1200716392
4 Josephine Setiawan 7459835511
5 Lauren Sterns 5460515926
6 David Jin 3755339851
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Hospital Recovery Times
 
A large metropolitan hospital is trying to reduce the average patient recovery and discharge time in its hospital. Da
data systems integrator, has developed a system that is designed to reduce the recovery and discharge time by a
minutes or more. But the system costs over 5 million dollars to fully implement the system. The hospital IT director
skeptical about the effectiveness of the system.
 
Datronics agreed to a trial of their system over a period of 2 months. The IT director collected data from a random
3500 patients over this period, as given in the dataset. There are three PACUs (Post-Anaesthesia Care Units). O
in-patient (e.g., more invasive surgery) and two are out-patient (e.g., less invasive surgery) although there may be
mixing. Each PACU is a large recovery area for patients, right after their surgery.
 
Before the trial implementation, it was known that historically, the average (mean) patient recovery and discharge
the hospital was 80 minutes. (Hint: Datronics asserts that its system can reduce this time by at least 15 minutes
new mean should be lower).
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m. The hospital IT director is

ected data from a random sample of

naesthesia Care Units). One unit is
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me by at least 15 minutes, that is
 Post-Anesthesia Recovery Time (12 variables, 3,500 patients)

Patient Month Time In Time Out RecovTime PACU RecovMins

1 1 1:51:00 2:20:00 0:29:00 InPat 29
2 1 10:55:00 12:20:00 1:25:00 InPat 85
3 1 13:35:00 14:15:00 0:40:00 InPat 40
4 1 16:10:00 17:00:00 0:50:00 InPat 50
5 1 17:55:00 18:25:00 0:30:00 InPat 30
6 1 18:36:00 19:35:00 0:59:00 InPat 59
7 1 18:58:00 19:15:00 0:17:00 InPat 17
8 1 20:01:00 21:00:00 0:59:00 InPat 59
9 1 8:15:00 8:20:00 0:05:00 OutPat2 5
10 1 8:36:00 9:40:00 1:04:00 OutPat1 64
11 1 8:40:00 9:00:00 0:20:00 OutPat2 20
12 1 8:45:00 9:30:00 0:45:00 OutPat2 45
13 1 8:46:00 9:35:00 0:49:00 InPat 49
14 1 8:46:00 9:25:00 0:39:00 OutPat2 39
15 1 9:00:00 9:35:00 0:35:00 InPat 35
16 1 9:01:00 9:10:00 0:09:00 OutPat2 9
17 1 9:25:00 9:30:00 0:05:00 OutPat2 5
18 1 9:26:00 10:40:00 1:14:00 InPat 74
19 1 9:40:00 11:00:00 1:20:00 InPat 80
20 1 9:45:00 9:55:00 0:10:00 OutPat2 10
21 1 9:46:00 11:00:00 1:14:00 InPat 74
22 1 9:51:00 10:45:00 0:54:00 OutPat1 54
23 1 9:56:00 10:55:00 0:59:00 InPat 59
24 1 10:05:00 10:15:00 0:10:00 OutPat1 10
25 1 10:05:00 10:45:00 0:40:00 OutPat2 40
26 1 10:06:00 10:30:00 0:24:00 InPat 24
27 1 10:06:00 10:45:00 0:39:00 OutPat2 39
28 1 10:21:00 11:30:00 1:09:00 InPat 69
29 1 10:21:00 11:10:00 0:49:00 InPat 49
30 1 10:36:00 11:20:00 0:44:00 OutPat1 44
31 1 10:45:00 11:15:00 0:30:00 OutPat1 30
32 1 10:51:00 11:20:00 0:29:00 OutPat2 29
33 1 11:11:00 11:40:00 0:29:00 InPat 29
34 1 11:20:00 12:00:00 0:40:00 InPat 40
35 1 11:21:00 13:10:00 1:49:00 OutPat1 109
36 1 11:25:00 13:40:00 2:15:00 OutPat2 135
37 1 11:31:00 12:15:00 0:44:00 InPat 44
38 1 11:36:00 12:15:00 0:39:00 OutPat1 39
39 1 11:45:00 13:00:00 1:15:00 InPat 75
40 1 11:50:00 15:40:00 3:50:00 InPat 230
41 1 11:51:00 12:50:00 0:59:00 InPat 59
42 1 12:06:00 12:50:00 0:44:00 InPat 44
43 1 12:06:00 13:30:00 1:24:00 InPat 84

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